need ideas for strange problem

TxGearhead wrote:

colliehauler wrote:

Mel B. wrote:

DallasSteve wrote:
I don't have a problem with the death penalty in this case. Snakes wouldn't hesitate to kill me and eat me if they could.

XXX22 I have a big fear of snakes, had a dog bit in the face 10 years ago by a rattle snake. I was on a hunting trip took over three hours to get to a vet that had ANTI VENNOM. It was horrible what that dog went through (A softball size boil on her face, neck so swallon I didn't think she would make it to the vet) Two viles of anti vennom $500 each at that time. I'm 6'3" 250lbs and I would scream like a girl two.
Mel

I had a rescue Collie from TX that had been bitten by a rattle snake before I got her. We have garden snakes around here and any time she found a snake she would kill it.

I've heard that as well, that once bitten, a dog hates snakes and will try to kill them. I've seen a Lab kill a water moccasin. He kept circling it until he saw his opportunity. Lab bit him behind the head. I have a bayou/swamp behind the house and usually kill 3-4 moccasins a year. None yet. Both my sons dogs have been bit. No vet visits. Swelled up and got over it.

Yeah the old Cattle rancher that lives on the ranch where my dog was bit thought I was nut's for taking my dog to the vet. He's a state licenesed mountain lion trapper. Anytime theres a problem mountain lion in his part of the state he deals with it. Bottom line is he has a lot of working dogs (They are not pets as he puts it, there TOOLS) and when they get snake bit it's up to the dog to get better. He says he's never had one die yet. and never spent a dime at the vet.
Mel