Good boy,Dante.
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black labs by breed are awesome looking out for owners, little kids, etc.
Good Dog! I had a mutt who liked to kill rattlesnakes. Unfortunately he killed all snakes including the good ones. Once I took a series of pictures of him attacking an oak snake. The non poisonous snake kept striking at him and he would jump out of the way every time. Amazing how good his reflexes were. This is a 5'6" long Florida Diamondback.Good dog! Hate snakes. Never go walking without carrying a spade, gun, machete, and now...a good dog!
My great-granddad died from a cotton-mouth bite. He was in his early thirties in rural Arkansas. Nearest doctor was over thirty miles away. He lived for 3 days. Left behind five little girls, including my grandmother.
Ol’ Mel went for two guys that walked up behind me once when I was panning for gold up a canyon. Up until that moment, I didn’t know she could make those sounds or look that mean. 40 pounds of unsuspected unadulterated absolute killer guardian wolf in Springer Spaniel clothing. Damn that was an eye opener. She got between me and them and I have no doubt she would have made the swap, her life for mine to the last breath in her body. Those guys just about soiled themselves running backwards up the creek bank.... After I called her off and got her calmed down, we helped out the two guys. They needed a jack. Mel never took her eyes off them, and they knew it. Damn dog. She’s been gone ten years now. Damn dog. sniff..Damn dog. There’s a pile of stones just outside the window here, a 4X4 with a sun bleached tennis ball on top, Damn dog......Give that Lab a chewy and a belly rub for me. Damn dog......
Good girl, Georgia!
/sry remembering my favorite dog/companion
Good boy, Dante!!!
Dogs are such loyal creatures. Hope this pooch has a long and happy life ahead of him.
BTW, I hadn’t realized that cottonmouths were that dangerous. I knew they were venomous, but I had always thought it wasn’t particularly potent (by poisonous snake standards). I was definitely wrong on that one!
For those that don’t live in snake country:
dog gets bit in the snoot or leg - probably survives.
dog gets bit in the body - you’re likely gonna lose him unless you are in the parking lot of a vet.
Luckily, most dogs go straight at the snake and get bit on the snout (or as a friend of mine always says, “proves dogs are probably Marines, because the know the best way to attack an enemy is head on!”)
Very cool. If he was a liberal dog he would have waited around wondering when another animal would help him.
My cat may have swatted at it. (On a good day)
Our granddaughter was bit by a copperhead on Mother’s Day 2010, right out in our backyard in the mid-afternoon. It was lying in a large patch of english ivy; she came walking down through the ivy from a swing up on a landing; stepped right on the snake. It struck her three times in the left foot. She was four at the time. Rushed her to the hospital, ten minutes away. She was treated and transferred to our county’s main hospital where she stayed for four days. She came through fine, thank God; but we’ll never forget it, although she seemed to have put it behind her within a couple weeks. My husband found and killed the snake, which was about 18 inches.
I agree....that’s some dog! :)
Sad to think, if that was my dog, he would have to been put down due to the cost of treatment. It’s not mentioned in the story , but that had to be at huge cost
From a bumper-sticker I saw the other day:
“On the day God created dog, he sat back and smiled!”