Yesterday dog and kids found this Osage Copperhead about 15 feet from back of barn. Dog got bit keeping us late with treatment. She has been bitten by a copperhead before so we know the drill. The snakes do it small rodents to be sure but they have been causing some challenges to be sure. The poison species like this one are hazard for kids and cause down time for dogs protecting flock. We suffer some egg losses to Black Rat Snakes and I have had dead snakes fowl fencing on more than one occasion. Catch and release on property does little as the snakes have pretty good homing abilities. This will be something that will take some time to figure out.
Dog was already bitten by time of this photograph, otherwise I would have to be pushing her back from snake. Daughter still learning what snakes are not good to handle. This kind hurts, some pretty ones smell really bad.
Dog on bed being treated for bite. I did not know something was up until she went straight into house to lay down on hour human bed. She does that only when not feeling well. She got bit on left side of face which was swelling by time of photograph.
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Dog was already bitten by time of this photograph, otherwise I would have to be pushing her back from snake. Daughter still learning what snakes are not good to handle. This kind hurts, some pretty ones smell really bad.
Dog on bed being treated for bite. I did not know something was up until she went straight into house to lay down on hour human bed. She does that only when not feeling well. She got bit on left side of face which was swelling by time of photograph.
