During the drive I saw one tiny bite mark on his lower lip and aside from the swelling around his neck, he was acting more or less normal. It appeared, and was later confirmed, that he had a very mild bite. I immediately scooped him up in my arms and called my wife. Off to the emergency vet I went…again.
When I pulled up into my driveway the hound wasn’t sitting on the back of our loveseat staring out the window. My heart sunk. I opened the door and he crept to our foyer slowly greeting me. His neck was swollen like a bullfrog in heat. He didn’t look like he’d been bitten, so in a moment of triage I only grabbed the boxer. After I sat for a while with my wife, I decided I should go check on the other dogs. hey seemed so apathetic and uncaring it really made my blood boil. My wife met me at the vet, having prepped the staff on our situation, and I turned my dog over to the vet tech. Without listening to my concerns, the tech slipped a noose leash over my dog’s constricted airway and drug him across the floor. He let out a scream of pain that sent shockwaves through my body and I lost my mind. Let’s just say quite a few expletives came out of my mouth as my wife pushed me to the waiting area. Was that the same snake that got my dogs? It felt very weird for me, the snake guy, to be on the receiving end of a bad snake experience. If I had only searched harder for the snake last week, maybe I could have spared all parties involved. I chastised myself almost a week later as I drove my best friend to the emergency vet. When I got the call, I was driving and by the time I got to their house it was long gone. His breathing was becoming labored with the venom from the multiple bites starting to cause swelling that cut off his airway. I loosened his collar so it wouldn’t further restrict his breathing. I was crying both for the snake and my dogs. I felt like such a failure as a conservationist and dog owner. The two worlds collided in a traumatic way and I felt partially responsible. This was literally my nightmare.įive days prior to the bite in my yard, a neighbor spotted a copperhead in theirs and called me to relocate it.
I called my wife, with tears in my voice, and had her get in touch with our veterinarian who promptly told us to go to the emergency vet on the other side of town. I loaded my buddy up in my truck and sped to the vet. He started wheezing and wobbling and I became a tad hysterical. My hound just sauntered off seemingly unharmed, but my boxer was drooling badly and started moving in a way that made me suspicious.įrantically I got them both back up to the house. That’s when I saw my boxer was bleeding from both jowls, under his chin, and most alarmingly from between the eyes. This didn’t weaken the snakes drive to defend his fading life. I shooed them off of the snake and saw the poor copperhead had sustained a mortal wound from the dogs. The southern copperhead is the only venomous snake in my county, and as bad luck would have it, my dogs cornered one.
I picked up my pace when I saw the tell-tale serpentine shape being thrashed back and forth in the mouth of my boxer. This wasn’t a black snake. The beige color made my heart skip a beat and my pace quickened. My worst fear was confirmed when I identified the species striking wildly at both dogs. It was a copperhead. Photo by Matt Jeppson/Shutterstockīoth dogs have a very high prey drive as evidenced this summer by the myriad mole, vole, and baby opossums that they played a little too rough with during their hunts. Success is the direct result of everyone working together toward a common goal: To deliver exceptional service to our valued guests and provide a high quality work environment for our associates.Copperhead snakes are found throughout the south eastern United States. This is a great chance to further develop your customer service skills and work for a Boxer Resort, a premier management company in the hospitality industry. North Creek Golf Course, a Boxer Resort, has an exciting opportunity for a Bartender position. Job Category: Customer Service Description
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