snake catcher Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) Dogs are fine and did not get envenomated. Very lucky fuzzy little mongels though. Edited April 3, 2012 by snake catcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Poor Snakey, lucky dogs! Hope my fuzzy little mongrels never find one in our back yard. :laugh: We have a swamp type river over our back fence too and I am always scared of snakes coming into the yard, we have had one outside the fence when the units next door were being built, but apart from that haven't seen one in 8 years! Your videos are great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missymoo Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Omg, that's just how my poor import, Skip died..snake took a short cut through his backyard.... They both killed eachother sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavik Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Lucky dogs! The yard was pretty well kept too. Good reminder though to get OH onto our grass - it is way too long for my liking at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flame ryder Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Sorry it's off topic but I have a question for snake catcher seeing as he seems the snake expert in here.... Is it true that an animal that is bitten and killed by a brown snake would decompose faster than a normal death?? This was something I heard...supposedly the venom in the animals system breaks the body down faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinabean Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Omg, that's just how my poor import, Skip died..snake took a short cut through his backyard.... They both killed eachother sadly. That is sad Missymoo, RIP Skip. I always enjoy the videos you post Snakecatcher. It's a good reminder to me to do a bit of a backyard tidy-up. We live close to a lake and bush reserve that is well-populated by tiger snakes (I've seen quite a few while walking the dog there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 In other countries, some of the venomous snakes, vipers in particular, have necrotic venom. This means the venoms has flesh eatiing properties and in theory would cause a small bodied animal to decompose a bit quicker I suppose. Australian snakes do not use venom for digestion of prey so the answer to your question about the eastern brown snake is , "not likely". But if a large snake envenomated a small animal, maybe the process might be sped up.. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blakbelgian Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Poor snakey, glad the dogs are ok. I kept waiting for the snake to pop its head up & say "just tricking I am alive." BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perrin Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) In other countries, some of the venomous snakes, vipers in particular, have necrotic venom. This means the venoms has flesh eatiing properties and in theory would cause a small bodied animal to decompose a bit quicker I suppose. Australian snakes do not use venom for digestion of prey so the answer to your question about the eastern brown snake is , "not likely". But if a large snake envenomated a small animal, maybe the process might be sped up.. Hope that helps But it's possible that a snake bite could cause the flesh to die off even when the animal does not die from the bite? I currently am dealing with a cat here who was bitten whilst in the cat house and she recovered quickly being given antivenom treatment but several days later her fur began to fall out and the skin to become unhealthy. (Sorry i don't want to distress people) This is what her coat and skin looked like on Saturday. I won't post any recent pics as it could be distressing to some. I will say that other than the colour of her skin the fur loss has (fingers crossed) slowed down. Edited April 3, 2012 by perrin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 The red bellied black snakes venom has been known to be necrotic but red bellies have never been a cause of fatalaties in humans. I imagine the toxicity and load of each snake would vary as well so you would not want to generalise. A lot of times a bite will ulcerate and get infected, causing hairloss and skin problems, but this is just the reaction to the venom. Exotic viperid venom is a different kettle of fish altogether.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Different yard, different dog...ah the serenity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InspectorRex Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 The only good snake is a dead one IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugUrPup Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 The only good snake is a dead one IMHO I'm afraid I agree. Sorry Snake catcher. I'm really surprised they are being found in the Franga and Seaford area. I really worry about them coming into my yard, although I have 2 guinea pigs who can't escape so I doubt a snake can get in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Geeze, heaps of places to hide in that backyard if you are a snake. My dachshund has caught and killed 3 or 4 snakes in my backyard when I lived up in QLD, it used to terrify me. Thank god she was a good snaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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