Poisonous Snake Bites

It was my first. Glad I caught it as soon as I did. I went back and watched the video on one of the cameras in the yard where it happened. One of the dogs heard the snake slithering past her and she got up like "WTF is that??" LOL.

She let it slither past and she went up and smelled where it passed her at. The dog that got bit started going after it as soon as she saw it lol. She was still killing it when I went back there and stopped her. Glad she's ok.

 

Thanks, Thunder. Me too.

 

If this was directed towards me, yes, the snake injected some venom into her. Her face was a little swollen for 2 days but was normal after that.

 

Mostly black snakes and king snakes around here. (NC) Copperheads are here and we see them occasionally but not a bunch of them.

Seldom do they (any of them) come into the chain spots. The snakes do the avoiding but it happens. The one that bothered me the most was last spring. One crawled into a puppy pen and the puppy hemmed him up in the corner at the door. I would have just about stepped on the copperhead if the puppy had not been yacking and carrying on.

The Dex, Benadryl and antibiotics. I once read 1500-2000mgs of Vitamin C helped speeds recovery.

Of all the dogs here the Beagle patrol dog gets a couple three a year. He is swells like a balloon, lays around a couple days and then right back at his patrol job. He is 12 now so if there are lingering effects of multiple bites he is not showing any.

S

 

I've killed 4 damn copperheads in the last 2 weeks. Just last night I walked out of the back door and my first step was literally right over a copperhead. Those are about the only snakes I see here.

 

My next door neighbor, a farm or so away, stepped off her back deck two years ago and a copperhead tagged her in the back of the ankle. Hospital stay for about three or four days. Her heel and ankle area looked horrible for a long time. They are nasty.

I see a few but not many. I always think I should see more as the pond is only a couple acres away and a creek is the property line behind the house. I'm not into the snakes at all but my buddy tells me to look for the copperheads after a hard drenching rain followed by the hot sun/high humidity. I'm basically on the watch from the earliest signs of spring until the first snow. I pop them all.

S

 

You and me both, Slim. Off with their heads. Every single one. I'm always looking for them as well.

Unfortunately I don't have a vet that will sell me dex yet so I just keep Benedryl and antibiotics on hand and hope for the best.

I've heard we have timber rattlers here but I have yet to see one.

About 3 weeks ago I was clearing some brush and was running machines to do it and I thought I may have heard the dogs barking but wasn't sure. When I did hear them barking I shut off the equipment and went to see what they were barking at as I could tell by their barks that they were barking at some type of wildlife.

When I went walking down the trail that leads to the area that they were being kept at I saw the tail of a large snake go slithering into the woods. I have no clue what kind of snake it was but it WAS BIG. I know for sure it wasn't a copperhead but have no clue what it actually was. The dogs were going crazy and was barking for a long period after that. I would love to know that it was a king snake but unfortunately I don't know what kind it was lol. I'll just assume (and hope) it was LOL.