Rattlesnake Bit My Dog

[BobG_in_VA]

BTW the dog looks like it will make a full recovery. Most of the swelling is gone and the skin is already healing over.

Tim, great news about the Pup! Back here in Va, if you have blacksnakes, you will not have copperheads. I've never seen it happen, but a blacksnake will kill a copperhead. It must be true as my father's shop had a resident black snake and never had a poisonous one there. Scared the Pi$$ outta me one day as I walked in the door to be face to face with a skin shed that was hanging from the rafters. When a snake sheds, the shed skin then "shrinks" some, but the shed was still over 4 ft long and it wasn't the whole thing. I saw this guy laying along a rafter once and he was (seems to me anway) over 7 ft long. Pop didn't bother him and he just ate the mice. They had a good relationship for a number of years. Again happy for your family and the pup. BobG in VA