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Natalie Rigertas wrote:

Jeepers wrote:


Since your dog was bitten twice by a venomous snake, you might want to
look into snake avoidance training.

The first bite got him in the face, he never even knew it was there,
avoidance training wouldn't have helped - I was there. The second time
he was alerting my bumbling daughter to it's presence, otherwise she
would have been bitten. The 10 year old girl carried him nearly a
quarter of a mile back to the house, he weighed nearly 80 pounds, she
was bawling when she appeared.

I've only had the one dog, of many of my dogs, be bitten. It was a fluke
he got it twice.

There are trainers in every state
with venomous snakes who do this. Some use live (non-venomous) snakes to
do the training, and there is someone I'v heard of in...FL? that uses
plastic snakes that look like the real ones, and has just as good a
success rate as using live snakes.

After his experience he wasn't real happy with my son's big rubber
snake. He barked and growled and kept his distance.

I'm having trouble getting my browser to resolve things, but this link is
to someone who does snake avoidance training in TX:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/expo/exp...fe/index.phtml Even if
the person isn't local to you, they can recommend someone who is local,
and who has experience with it.

Thanks, I have several friends who work for Texas Parks and Wildlife,
some are biologists, several are archeologists and one is a ranger in
Big Bend. As a matter of fact I saw two of them this weekend while we
were doing volunteer work at Sonora Caverns doing restoration work in
the cave. I'm a spelunker.

This is something I will be doing if I have to move to the south in a
couple years, as it looks like I might be doing.

natalie

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm not too worried about snakes. Parvo and
rabies and cattle pose more of a threat to our dogs. It was just that he
had several years taken off his time with us due to the snakes. He had
his own snake training, he was a veteran snake spotter after his two
incidents, he was real good at alerting us to Joe-no-shoulders after
that.

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