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!
Their bites aren’t usually fatal but the are serious. They can be extremely agressive to the point where they will follow you down a trail to bite you.
They’ll also drop into your boat out of trees.
I think cottonmouts have pretty strong venom for their size. The vast number of people who get bitten do survive.
The copperhead is less potent and nearly everyone survives their venom. The Florida subspecies of the Eastern Diamondback is the largest snake in the country and they are very dangerous because of the amount of venom they can inject.
Hardly anyone gets bitten by a coral snake as they chew to get their venom in. If they do get it in you are probably in for a bad time. They have be far the most potent venom but do not have as much of it.