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Prayers lifted up here, too.

What's the word on her condition?

Ed

I've heard of rattlesnakes 'dry biting', but didn't know copperheads could do it too. Can moccasins?

Hadnt heard anything this morning. Son said last night they would prolly have her in hospital til tomorrow.

Thanks!

Any viper can dry bite. Some just don't like to. They want to give you the full benefit of their presence.

Swelling going down and she is resting comfy! Feels good! I suppose all is going well according to the kids!

Thanks again to you all!

Good to hear Bob!

My uncle got bit one day and he was in tough shape for over a week. Healed up though. And we took a buddy's uncle to the hospital one day, got one fang from a little copperhead in his pinky.
Hurt so bad he was literally begging us to shoot him by the time we got there.

He pulled through too....without noticeable damage to the finger.

sorry to hear that, hope she recovers well. I do not get along with buzztails.
I always remember a son in law, we were out quail hunting. He is on top of a ridge and spots about a four foot diamondback. Asks me what to do? My answer was you haven't killed it already? He proceeds to tail it down the hill towards me.
I asked him to step aside. I had a remington 1100 and dumped the magazine on said snake, reloaded and did it again.

Glad to hear the good news.

Hope she at least gets a bit of a break from her "routine", and a bit of extra attention from the "kids".

Maybe ice cream too!

Geno

Bob, looks like the power of prayer is prevailing. Glad to hear that she is on the mend.

Thanks for the report Bob - hope it continues to zero problem for the lady.

I kind of agree on the dogs, but in the above case, the dogs were not around the courtyard, the movers had left the gate open that day and it was easy enough to use the 5' steel rod to nudge the small though highly venomous Mojave Green rattler down the drive.

Maybe a month or so later, my oldest Jack Russell ended up with a big bite over her eye and a badly swollen head. We took her to a vet who said there were numerous snake bite cases around here. However, my best guess was a fight with one of the younger daughters over dominance and a shot for infection cleaned her up. The skin was just too ripped to look like a snake bite.

Yes they can but with their nasty temperament they usually just say [bleep] it an give you all they got.

Pit vipers get no quarter from me.

I've arrived here late, but since I have been bitten twice by copperheads and once by a cottonmouth, I can tell you the copperhead is much the lesser of them. I was last bitten on top of my left foot which was bare at the time while in my driveway washing my truck. Since I was over 55 years old that time, they would not give me anti vennom at the hospital. They gave me a tetnus shot and I stayed in the hospital over night and they measured the rate of swelling evey hour. If it had exceeded a ceratin rate, I would have been transferred to Atlanta. But it didn't and I was discharged late the next day.

Because I did not get the anti venom, my whole leg swole up, turned several colors, and there was a lot of tissue damage and necrotic blood. It was the most painful bite out of the three. I had to wear an anti embolism stocking and go to physical therapy where they put that leg in ice cold water and used a leg stocking on it that expanded and contracted and worked the bad blood out. They were afraid I was going to throw a clot with all that necrotic blood.

About three weeks later I could get a shoe on that foot and walk on it without a limp. Snake bite and old age do not go well together fellas, so don't do it.

Bob, Thanks for the report. Hope she is resting and not hurting.

When my son was about 3 years old he was bitten by a big rattlesnake that had got into his sand box.

Several difficult hours passed until the Docs determined it was a dry bite.

Scary stuff...

Glad to hear it. Read it yesterday and didn't comment and was thinking about her late last night.

Glad to hear the good news so far.

Just saw this, Bob - glad she's doing well. I'll say a short prayer of thanks.

Thanks to all! Son is on his way to Temple right now to get her and bring her home. A couple more appts in the next week or two.

Good news. miles