On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:52:21 -0400, (Jo Wolf) wrote:

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BTW.... the little guy with the snake bite is doing astoundingly well.
He's not sloughing much from his tongue, and it's already healing where
it sloughed. Eating soft food now, not quite soaked into mush. His
owner says it was less than half an hour after the bite that the
anti-venin was given.... but by then his pulse was already weak and
thready, pulse rate of only 140. That emergency vet was one sharp
cookie to move so fast. The dog weighed 18 lbs.... fit and trim.

Great!

I assume his small size works against him, when it comes to being
bitten by a poisonous snake.

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Dogman

Yeh, our owners who are vets say that the small size is definitely an
issue. And add to that a hit on the extremely vascular tongue.... The
emergency vet said that only a direct hit to an artery leading to the
brain could have been worse. IIRC, this is a 7yo dog.... and we
consider them young until around 8-9 for middle age.

Jo

Today's vet visit reports the tongue HEALED, and the little bitch's
cheek mostly healed.

YAY!

Jo

"Jo Wolf" wrote in message
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Today's vet visit reports the tongue HEALED, and the little bitch's
cheek mostly healed.

YAY!

Jo
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Wonderful news! Amazing what they can live through, isn't it? Is he/will
he be able to eat normally?

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:02:02 -0400, (Jo Wolf) wrote:

Today's vet visit reports the tongue HEALED, and the little bitch's
cheek mostly healed.

YAY!

Double yay!

--
Dogman