Awesome dogs / Crazy pets Thread

[RCW]

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So this was Otis patiently waiting for the after hours vet to arrive at 7pm Saturday night. He disturbed a large snake in the long grass on our walk. Saw a big coil of snake flick up but couldn't tell if he had been bitten.
No snake bite fortunately but the vet knew him and my wife by name after his last escapade of eating from the compost pile and not eating for 3 days.

Was it a venomous snake he encountered/disturbed??!?!

I know you’ve got a lot of nasty serpents Down Under…..

Hopefully everything remains okay.

One thing about regular snow is that it’s a great deterrent to alligators, pythons , and most venomous creatures….

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Was it a venomous snake he encountered/disturbed??!?!

I know you’ve got a lot of nasty serpents Down Under…..

Hopefully everything remains okay.

One thing about regular snow is that it’s a great deterrent to alligators, pythons , and most venomous creatures….

I think the better question is, does OZ have any snakes that aren't poisonous?

They have spiders that would send me to my grave in short order, and no it wouldn't have to bite me.

 

[WanderOn]

Was it a venomous snake he encountered/disturbed??!?!

I know you’ve got a lot of nasty serpents Down Under…..

Hopefully everything remains okay.

One thing about regular snow is that it’s a great deterrent to alligators, pythons , and most venomous creatures….

Not sure what it was. I think he stood on it in the long grass. A coil of snake flicked up as thick as my forearm. Was a bit overly cautious as it can take up to a day for symptoms to show depending on the snake and how much venom.
Vet checked him over. Tried to get a blood sample but he wasn't having it. She was confident he was OK by the fact he wouldn't sit still or let her get bloods.
Not sure what it was. Guessing by how thick it was, it was possibly a python.
He did freak the vet out at one stage. One of the symptoms of snake bite is the dog will collapse then bounce back as if nothing happened. While she was going through all the things to watch for he did one of his I'm bored flops to the floor.

 

[WanderOn]

I think the better question is, does OZ have any snakes that aren't poisonous?

They have spiders that would send me to my grave in short order, and no it wouldn't have to bite me.

We have plenty of pythons. They're not poisonous, although some get rather large.

 

[D2Cat]

War Dog---- (I copied this)
This dog's name was Gunner. My uncle brought him back from WW2. He was raised and slept under my uncle's anti- aircraft gun. The gun crew shared their rations to feed him. By the time he was 18 months old, my uncle said he would stand up and look at the sky. If he laid back down they knew all was ok. If he growled and put his hackles up they got at the ready. He knew the sound of the German aircraft and my uncle said he never got it wrong. He said Gunner was better than any early warning system. I'm probably the only one left in the family that knows that story now, so I thought I'd tell it before it's lost forever, like many stories must be from that time. Thanks for reading it.

There are probably thousands of stories of dogs protecting their masters!