MELS. NEW ADVENTURES

[B&B Happy goats]

Copperheads are nasty...thats a good girl Paris ! She sure look serious about getting it !

 

[Baymule]

She hates snakes and cats. We had a cat hoarder next to us at our old house, they peed on our porch, the corner of the house, crapped all over the front yard, any cat that got in Paris's back yard was a dead cat.

 

[Baymule]

She hates snakes and cats. We had a cat hoarder next to us at our old house, they peed on our porch, the corner of the house, crapped all over the front yard, any cat that got in Paris's back yard was a dead cat.

 

[Baymule]

She hates snakes and cats. We had a cat hoarder next to us at our old house, they peed on our porch, the corner of the house, crapped all over the front yard, any cat that got in Paris's back yard was a dead cat.

 

[Mike CHS]

She obviously knows it's something to avoid being hit by.

 

[Baymule]

Trip got a BAD copperhead bite last summer. It was on the inside of his front leg, way up at the top, next to his chest. he laid in the floor for days. I gave him Arnicare pills for pain, baby aspirin and benedryl every 4 hours for a day and a half. Normally I give that only 2-3 times and the dog is ok. When the swelling finally went down, there was a hole in his leg where the snake bit him. It took a couple of weeks to heal. I haven't observed him near a snake, but spring is coming and they will be out. I wonder if he'll hate them now as much as Paris does.

 

[Ridgetop]

Mel looks like my teenaged boys used to as they waited for the pizza deliveryman!

Paris stalking a copperhead.

What happens if the copperhead strikes the dogs? Do you vaccinate? We have rattlesnake vaccines here but you have to get several boosters and they say that it really only gives the dogs extra time until you can get them to a vet for treatment. My friend Erick says that the dogs seem to be quick enough to avoid being bitten but I would hate for one of my dogs to be bitten and lose her or him or her . . . .

 

[Ridgetop]

Didn't you get anything from the vet? IS there anything you can get from the vet? Do the topicals and Arnicare work that well on snake bites? or do the dogs have some sort of immunity? There are cobras and other poisonous snakes in Turkey where Anatolians originally come from but I never heard that these dogs have any kind of immunity to snake venom.

 

[Baymule]

I haven't had to deal with rattlesnakes. For copperhead bites I give arnicare pills for pain, then a baby aspirin and benedryl every 4 hours, usually 2-3 doses and let the dog sleep it off and they are much better the next day. I have never taken a dog to the vet for a copperhead bite.

 

[Ridgetop]

Are cottonmouths the same? I thought copperhead bites were fatal.