that dogs rarely die from American pit viper bites. He said that he has had one die on the table that was bitten in the jugular and the anticoagulant in the venom made it impossible to stop the bleeding.
We have had four dogs bitten by water moccasins ( I had a neighbor ask me where there was any water. I told her "the creek, the ponds,etc."
The first two were bitten on the same day. I noticed someone whining, but every time I would go look, they would be standing there wagging their tails. I finally noticed two tiny (I mean tiny) fangs marks on the girl's face. We went to the vet.
It gets better...another one of the girls developed a small abscess on her back. I got it to pop and put Neosporin on it and didn't think anything of it, til it spread in a weird way. Finally looked on the internet and she had all the symptoms of a water moccasin bite. Back to the vet. (Mind you, it had to have been about a week before the abscess showed up.)
The fourth one was last summer when another one of the girls developed a limp. Now, when your dogs have a quarter acre to play in, sometimes they get overzealous and hurt themselves. I went all over her and could find nothing, til about a week later when the same type of abscess showed up. Back to the vet.
Except for the first dog that died of old age, they are all still alive and healthy. One is 13, and frisky and FAT.
The moccasins only seem to show up when it gets dry. I do believe that they are crossing from the creek to the pond and that damn quarter acre is in their way. My husband put mothballs all around the dog yard and under their deck to run the snakes off. It works. Go into Lowe's and smell their "snake repellent", it's mothballs.
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