Can the gloves defend against a rat bite?
Ok, I really gotta know: what are you doing for your job or in your free time where you’re rummaging around both rats & cats?
Matt357 seems to want to ignore perfectly reasonable answers today, as also evidenced in the electrolyte thread.
Like some kind of bot. I’m over it.
Is there some particular reason you seem to be intentionally ignoring all of the good advice and even ignoring the links to proper gloves that will do exactly the job you want, while continuing to focus on gloves that everyone keeps telling you won’t work?
Quite honestly I’m just baffled.
This isn’t rocket science. If you want gloves to protect you from animal bites, buy gloves that are designed to protect you from animal bites. The gloves you are completely focused on are designed to allow you to handle hazardous waste that may contain things like needles and razor blades. They aren’t designed for animal bites.
In all honesty, as long as the OP is going to remain focused on using the absolutely wrong type of gloves and is going to continue ignoring everything else, I see no reason to continue posting to this thread. I’m done.
Because the gloves you posted are $100 or more and hex armour gloves are $20 and I dont see why they wouldn’t work. There is a video on youtube of a snake biting into one and it didn’t penetrate.
Yeah, but a snake doesn’t run up your arm, claw into your head and gouge your eyes out.
I think it’s been explained pretty well in this thread why they wouldn’t work.
In some ways, you get what you pay for. But if cost is an issue, you can still look for gloves specifically made for animal control that won’t blow your budget. For example, a very quick google search turned up these for about $20:
I’ve never used them so obviously I have no idea how well they will work. Just from looking at them though I suspect that they will protect you from a cat a lot better than those hex armor gloves will.
ETA: Google animal handling gloves or animal control gloves. You can add words like inexpensive or affordable. That will at least get you the right type of gloves for the job.
Hex armor sells gloves just for animal handling They cost $165.
Look, a snake doesn’t have 4 sharp claws to gouge you with, and doesn’t have nearly the crush strength of a cat. You need puncture resistance and padding, and arm protection to handle an angry cat.
If you have to go cheap, heavy welders gloves ($5 at Harbor Freight) or the leather animal gloves linked above are your best bet. Maybe add leather welding sleeves for a few more bucks. They’re not going to give you 100% protection*, but they will cut down the potential for injury quite a bit.
*If they did, nobody would be able to sell the $100+ versions.