We’ve killed over 50 rattlesnakes on our place in Southern CA including a 4’ no rattle specimen who struck at my wife without warning 15’ from the edge of the pool. He missed her by an inch or less and struck so hard he fell off a small wall. Snake loads in a 357 ended him without damaging the tile.
Our old yellow lab was bitten twice, both Mostly dry bites but the first one kept her from coming into heat for 2 years. We are about 25 minutes from a hospital here so a minimum of 1/2 hour from treatment. Neighboring ranch Is the source of most of our snakes had a horse killed by a large snake - Being careful where you step is a fact of life where we live. Local hunting areas are only slightly more remote with helicopter response. Future son in law killed one with an arrow archery season last year.
Calm, clean, get to the hospital as soon as you can is what they teach these days. Most incidental bites are warnings without much venom injected but if a large pissed off snske let’s you have all the venom you probably have less than 20 minutes left.
