.... I took the copper head total around here down by 1 last night...

... how’s the pup today Yote ?

.... Hi Jtrap

Mchewk... those hands in Alabama think bacon grease and grits is the answer to everything

The dog was putting a little weight on it last night already. This morning it was still swollen and sore, but now it's like she'd never been bit at all. No swelling, running, jumping, swimming... back to 100%.

J... Jennifer Davis' blue heeler died from snakebite last summer. Just last week a customer came into Lowe's buying stones to put on his dog's grave that died of snakebite. Might not happen that often but it does happen.

Could be either. Some dogs learn to avoid them, others never do. But totally possible for them to step on one without noticing. Or in the case of hounds, find one in a hole.

Wife was pickin berries yesterday in tall grass, something bumped inside of each shoe as it went tween her legs, turned around and screamed!!! It was a yellow phase rattler!!!!

Poor puppy, glad his doing better, I’m glad i live in northern Iowa.

Guess some dogs learn to avoid them, growing up i had a german shephard who hated them, he would spend all day hunting them, head stayed swelled up all his life cause he wouldn't leave them alone. He killed them though so he usually got bit multiple times, why i doubt a snake bite will kill a grown dog. Dogs that have something else going on already it might be enough to put them down though, kind of like this chinese virus everyone is scared to death of.

Rattlesnake will kill a dog quick. Copperheads and cottonmouths just swell dogs up for a day or two and make them ill for a day or so. Only threat is if the swelling restricts airflow which is where the Benadryl comes in handy.

They say the head of the dog is the best spot it could be bit, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Legs are in the middle, and the trunk of the body is the worst. I've also heard that the rattlesnake bites are the worst.

This is the first time I've taken a dog to the vet for a snake bite. I did so because she's only 4 months old. But if that's what made her heal up as quick as she did, it might be worth it.

If its not because of blood flow, I think the skin might be thicker on the face, that and usually the face has less soft tissue so may have something to do with the depth of the bite and how long it can sit in the tissue.

had an uncle who had hounds in Tn. all the time. One of his walkers was fighting a rattler through a corn crib and got bit 6 or 7 times on his head. John said he laid around a few days with a swollen head but cam through it fine. Even Uncle John figured that would do the hound in.

About 6 weeks later the same hound got hold of a dead chicken and ate part of it. Killed the hound dead as a hammer.

Hope your hound gets better. I’ve seen some good hounds come and go. Mine were mainly Greyhounds I watched growing up. If dex or pcn didn’t fix em they would take their last rides. We don’t have many venomous snakes in these parts.

Was it a yellow phase before or after it passed between her legs? Just asking for a friend!

Chris

When shes picking for real she has a shovel handle with a 20 penny spike in the end and she rattles the berry bushes to get em out of there. She didn't have it here.

Yotetrapper how's pup today?

As of yesterday afternoon she was back to 100%. Can't even tell she'd been bit.