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Frodo has no luck at all ! Shot a few months back and now was bitten on the foot while playing tag with a copperhead . I guess the cool weather had the snake finding the cobblestone inviting . After the good lord called the snake home we took him to the vet . In tupelo . He is doing better but watch where you step . Attachment 167317
Frodo has my Prayers for a speedy recover
Get well Frodo, hang tuff dude!!!
Hate that for the pup
Hate them snakes
Haven't run into one yet since all this rain and cool weather but around here I watch every where I step and everywhere a put my hands out side. Have killed some big ones around my place.
Get better pup!!
Hope your pup pulls through!!
Prayers for the pup.
Hope the pup gets to feeling better
Not stirring at all but still here . Has been up a few times to drink a little and had a bite or two .Has been 30 hrs . since bit . hope that means something .
Do they give em anti venom? Landlords when I was a kid in england ar had a blue healer that would hunt poisonous snakes. You could always tell when he got one cuz hed be foaming at the mouth and pawing at his nose--guess he got immune to em.
Got two shots, not sure what they were for but said something about pain/ nausea . We used to run beagles yr. round and they got bitten fairly often . we fed them a pint jar of bacon grease and wished them well . To be a little guy he has had skirmishes with opossums, coons, snakes and a German Shepard. Would be safer in the house but it would kill him not to be outdoors running free when anyone goes out . Rather him have a good 3 yrs. than a caged ten . JMO
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Originally Posted by eagle 1
Never heard of the bacon grease thing
Bacon grease solved a lot of ailments in the ole days, least the bacon was good frying up the cure!!!:biggrin
Had a lab get bit once during early duck season by a cottonmouth. His entire head swole up, eyes swole shut, I took him to the vet and the Dr gave him a shot (I don't know what it was but it wasn't anti-venom more like an antihistamine) when he needed to go outside he would walk with the wall on his shoulder for feel to the door because he couldn't see. About three days later he was fine.
One of those shots might have been an antibiotic. I've been to the vet several times with snake bit labs and beagles, and was always told that their filthy mouths pose more of a threat than their venom when it comes to canines. I hope Frodo gets feeling better soon.
I had a yellow Tom cat years ago that got bit a couple of times. His hair would fall out in a 4 inch circle and you could see the fang marks. He survived both bites. He didn't survive me after he scratched my 3 yr old daughter though.
Sorry about your family pet getting bit by one of them things. Hope Frodo gets better soon!With all that built in camo you could step on one pretty easy!
Kinda like the little boy I saw a little while ago, he told me as he came across the yard with his dog following him, "That's Trixsy, her bites". My response was "Not no more ifn her bites me". They went back the way they came from.:Rofl
Give Frodo my best for a speedy recovery. I keep telling everyone there are two kinds of snakes and only two kinds. "Those that are dead and those that should be dead."
So is there an update on Frodo, praying all is good.
Poor Frodo! I remember my grandpa's hunting dogs getting bit. He was a big believer in rubbing alcohol. He had a Redbone that got bit on the muzzle by a copperhead. That dog's face swelled up huge. Grandpa bathed it in alcohol 2 or 3 times a day and believe it or not, the dog made it.
Doing better , eating/drinking more . Putting weight on the foot again . Body functions have returned . THINK HE WILL BE BACK 100 % IN A FEW DAYS .:biggrin
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Good deal, Happy to hear that