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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

One nice thing about an electric fence, whether you or your neighbor has it, 
is that it's useful for treating brown recluse bites.  You ground on one 
side and shock on the other.  Of course, it's more civilized to use a TENS 
unit on blast or get your local chiropractor to use electrostim on it.  But 
my first brown recluse bite was well on it's way to being extremely serious 
and the neighbor's fence, properly applied, stopped it.  The later bites I 
never let get so far along.   And of course it's a good treatment for 
snakebite too.  We used the same fence when my oldest kid got bitten by a 
pygmy rattler, but he hadn't gotten much  venom.      Donna