Bad Night Last Night

[Tom Canning]

Jeff -
That's a tough tale to tell - and at $1400 - I don't suppose you care much as long as he is still wagging his tail - bitten on the mouth indicates that he was trying to get rid of it - but a tad too slow....fortunately we don't have too many snakes in this area but summertime in the interior - you have to watch out - lost our Bella a nine year old Shepherd to cancer last year - tremendous loss so know how you felt overnight !
Cheers
Tom

[marcus69x]

Glad he's getting better Jeff. He's a cute looking dog. Nothing worse than loosing a close pet. been there before. $1400 though? Strewth, that's alot of money to have to pay because of an angry snake, but as already been said, it's immaterial compared to your pet. Hope you catch the slimmy little bugger an string him up.

[David Layne]

The joys of living in Alabama!

[Donnie]

Sorry to hear about your hound good sir.......i once killed an Adder by mistake whilst clipping the grass and stuff from around my grandads grave, cut its head off with a pair of shears ....hopefully you can find the little sod who bit your dog and do the same....or chuck it on a fire....

Donnie

[soren1941]

good news, get well soon Jack!

[Rich Payne]

Originally Posted by Donnie

.or chuck it on a fire....Donnie

...on the BBQ most likely ! No sense in wasting it

I've got stinging nettles at the bottom of my garden. Does that impress anybody ?

[Trincomalee]

You all sound rather like my father - a cousin sent me a picture of him just after the war . On the back she wrote "Bernard and the inevitable dog" . When I looked , he was holding a dog on most of his photos .
The only time we didn't have a dog was the 10 years we spent in Germany , because he couldn't face putting an animal in quarantine when we came back to England .

I'm so glad your dog is well - he's beautiful !
Linden

[Owen]

1400 Bucks! isn't that covered by pet Insurance?
Just been reading up Copperhead snakes.
Copperhead Snakes

Wildest thing in our garden apart from the birdlife was a hedgehog.

[David Layne]

And just down the road................................




A Florida teen has lost his arm, but not his spirit, after an alligator attacked him Sunday during an early morning swim in a Florida canal.
Kasey Edwards, 18, of Okeechobee, Fla., lost his left arm after grappling with the 11-foot long alligator in a canal at 2 a.m. Sunday.
"I felt something lock down and had the sensation of needle nose pliers, just a gigantic set of them, clamping down," Edwards told FOX affiliate WFLX-TV.
Edwards admits he and his friends were drinking before he decided to jump in the 25-foot-deep canal in Nubbin Slough in Okeechobee County.
"I've heard different rumors of what was involved and there were no drugs involved, no dare, nobody pushed me in or something," Edwards told WFLX-TV.
When the alligator grabbed his arm, he remembered that gators spin their prey, so he told WFLX-TV that he grabbed a buoy line and didn't let go.
"I was just like holding on with everything I could for this gator was trying to pull me under," he told the station. "I'd surface, get a gasp of air and he'd just shake again and pull me under.
"He did it about five times," Edwards continued. The teen poked the alligator in the eye to get free.
"I still at this time didn't realize that my arm was gone," he told WFLX-TV. "I just — my adrenalin was pumping, and I swam to the other side of the bank."
The Florida State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission captured the alligator after the attack, WFLX-TV reported. Edwards was taken to a Melbourne hospital for treatment and he should be released by the end of the week.
Edwards told FOXNews.com that he wants the state to do more to control the alligator population, citing the safety of young children, but he declined to discuss his own encounter further.
"It seems like there's a crossroads," Edwards told WFLX-TV. "Either you have a positive attitude, you know, just make the best of a bad situation, or just sit there and feel sorry for yourself."

[Slipdigit]

Originally Posted by Owen

1400 Bucks! isn't that covered by pet Insurance?
Just been reading up Copperhead snakes.
Copperhead Snakes

Wildest thing in our garden apart from the birdlife was a hedgehog.

No, but I suspect that we will be acquiring some.

Originally Posted by David Layne

And just down the road................................

A Florida teen has lost his arm, but not his spirit, after an alligator attacked him Sunday during an early morning swim in a Florida canal.

They've moved back in up here, David, after a long absence. Golf course here where I live now has signs posted aboutbe careful when looking for your errant balls near the lakes and ponds.

Endangered or not, they are too danged dangerous to have around with that much body strength and a brain the size of a walnut. Coyotes are getting too visible also.