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... looks like a real Copperhead, doesn't it ...

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huntnfishin said:
Nice one for a hatband :). We only get rattlers here.
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huntnfishin huntnfishin I absolutely hated to do it. I just had to finish it off after one of my dogs tangled with it. Look 3/4 down the snake and find a tooth puncture mark. Then it was off to the after-hours emergency vet (with the head), when my dog started "drifting" and getting really swollen around the mouth 30min later. Didn't want to take a chance of just pumping Rowdy with Benedryl and hope for the best. Anyway, vet says unless it's a Coral snake, there is only one antivenin for ALL other venomous bites in North America. Vet said in humans, the procedure is to administer antivenin until the swelling goes down. Couldn't afford that with Rowdy. After 10ml of antivenin at over $800 per 10ml, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory shot, overnight stay and $1500 total out the door ... Rowdy was completely back to normal after two-three days. That was 11yrs ago and haven't seen another Copperhead around here (knock on wood). Guess the word got out LOL
~ EVERY KNIFE HAS A STORY TO TELL ~
 
BrotherJim said:
huntnfishin huntnfishin I absolutely hated to do it. I just had to finish it off after one of my dogs tangled with it. Look 3/4 down the snake and find a tooth puncture mark. Then it was off to the after-hours emergency vet (with the head), when my dog started "drifting" and getting really swollen around the mouth 30min later. Didn't want to take a chance of just pumping Rowdy with Benedryl and hope for the best. Anyway, vet says unless it's a Coral snake, there is only one antivenin for ALL other venomous bites in North America. Vet said in humans, the procedure is to administer antivenin until the swelling goes down. Couldn't afford that with Rowdy. After 10ml of antivenin at over $800 per 10ml, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory shot, overnight stay and $1500 total out the door ... Rowdy was completely back to normal after two-three days. That was 11yrs ago and haven't seen another Copperhead around here (knock on wood). Guess the word got out LOL
~ EVERY KNIFE HAS A STORY TO TELL ~
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I thought the hole was from a stray pellet. Bummer about your dog. Yeah antivenin is expensive. Here we do a preventative shot and snake break the dogs twice while young. Even then most bites are from them just running over one. Usually a dry bite. The young small snakes are the worst. They don’t know when to quit pumpin venom. Snakes are like dogs. They have temperaments. Some aggressive some not so much. I have seen a Mojave green chase after someone. Anyhow not to get too far off the thread topic most larger dogs can handle a bite and heal on their own. Face/neck bites are the worst tho. Sucks to go to the vet and lay out a ton of scratch but at the end of the day it’s worth it for our furry friends. Glad your animal is gonna be ok. Scary crap a snake bite. Try a rattler bite an hours hike from the truck and a two hour drive to a vet. That’s a fun one!
Glad you killed it. It had it comin’ imho. I don’t generally kill snakes unless they are aggressive. I don’t like to eat them. Tho they taste like chicken if you cook them that way...and fish if you use lemon. But eating a snake your eating all the things the snake ate...
 
sitflyer said:
I might just know you by another name! :) Nice collection of knives Brother Jim:thumbsup:

I am Enaud :)
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HEY ENAUD sitflyer sitflyer !!! Long time no see. And ya know, "sitflyer" did sound real familiar and I just couldn't place it LOL. If you run into "JoeBingo" (very unlikely), tell him I said hello, and you're doing fine LOL
 
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