Venomous Snake: Friend and Foe

[McChooky]

Why do animals always go after snakes?
I sure hope Peanut feels better soon. Here, if one of our dogs gets bit, the most likely outcome is death, as ones only got about half an hour to get them to a vet, and the nearest vet is just over that distance away.
I lost one of my horses last summer.

We kill venomous snakes and never leave our dogs unsupervised.

 

[Sussex19]

We kill venomous snakes and never leave our dogs unsupervised.

Once summer hits, the dogs only go out on leads, or in an enclosed area, when we are around.
We don't kill them, as they are protected, and we feel that they have as much right as we do to live. Just how we do it, everyone needs to do what they think is best.

 

[Folly's place]

Snakes having neurotoxic venom are so much more dangerous, and there's so much less time to get to treatment! We were extremely careful when snorkeling the reefs off Okinawa because of the sea snakes. I did see one one day, and didn't go in the water right there...
Here in southern Michigan, we have very few small pit vipers, nowhere nearly as dangerous.
Mary

 

[centrarchid]

Once summer hits, the dogs only go out on leads, or in an enclosed area, when we are around.
We don't kill them, as they are protected, and we feel that they have as much right as we do to live. Just how we do it, everyone needs to do what they think is best.

My dogs are working dogs that are supposed to operate with a degree of independence. This is time we had to deal with a secondary infection. Impacted dog is working as usually when not confined to protect her bandages. She runs for two outs each evening so she can still chicken feed as birds filter back to roost sites.

 

[centrarchid]

Once summer hits, the dogs only go out on leads, or in an enclosed area, when we are around.
We don't kill them, as they are protected, and we feel that they have as much right as we do to live. Just how we do it, everyone needs to do what they think is best.

My dogs are working dogs that are supposed to operate with a degree of independence. This is time we had to deal with a secondary infection. Impacted dog is working as usually when not confined to protect her bandages. She runs for two outs each evening so she can still chicken feed as birds filter back to roost sites.

 

[McChooky]

Snakes having neurotoxic venom are so much more dangerous, and there's so much less time to get to treatment! We were extremely careful when snorkeling the reefs off Okinawa because of the sea snakes. I did see one one day, and didn't go in the water right there...
Here in southern Michigan, we have very few small pit vipers, nowhere nearly as dangerous.
Mary

From here its an hr drive with no cell phone service .If one of our pets gets bitten they're sol.

 

[centrarchid]

From here its an hr drive with no cell phone service .If one of our pets gets bitten they're sol.

Its generally not that bad. Dogs get bitten all the time. Our coonhounds used to get bitten during summer and we never lost a dog to that. Even beagles pulled through.

 

[McChooky]

Its generally not that bad. Dogs get bitten all the time. Our coonhounds used to get bitten during summer and we never lost a dog to that. Even beagles pulled through.

Thats good to know because I doubt I could get one to a vet in less than 2 hrs.

 

[Folly's place]

Snorkeling on Okinawa: 45 minutes minimum to get to a hospital or any medical treatment, before cell phones, and while sea snakes had little mouths so couldn't easily bite a leg, probably dead or near death in 45 minutes.
They worried us more than sharks, toxic little octupus, or the many pit vipers on land there.
And the unexploded bombs from WWII, although DH found one of those and picked it up off the beach one day. Crazy! He'll never live that idiocy down either.
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Apologies to @centrarchid for derailing this thread!
Glad your latest bite victim is doing better.
Mary