KNERSIE":1cm4xfp8 said:
CB, do you really think the vest will do much good? All the snake bites I've seen on dogs has been either on the front legs or head and neck.
Saved her Monday from a 4'10" timber rattler he struck the vest in the rib cage.
With the rattlesnake vaccine and having your dog snake proofed it work's. I have my dog's snakeproofed in a clinic using live rattlesnake's that are fixed so they can not bit the dog only strike them giving them a electric shock when hit.
What most people don't understand snakeproofing is only good for stopping your dog from jacking with one.
The vest is there to stop the accidental hit's. The Russell's are so small and the snakes are so large the little dog's can't produce enough antibodies quickly enough to win. The vaccine saved Rube once when she got hit in the back leg going over a log. That is when I came up with the snake vest idea, just hadn't put it in motion yet. Many bird hunters have went to the vest with success, that is where I got the idea and started on one sized for the Russell's.
If you can keep a large dose of venom from being directly injected to the vital's the vaccine has time to work.
If your dog get's bit in the face he has jacking with the snake. If they get bit in the ribcage or rear end they got on top of one by accident just like we do.
I seen Rube get struck she had treed a squirrel and was jumping up on the tree going around it and came down in the middle of one. She took a full dose hit in the ribcage and even with the vaccine it didn't have time to stop organ damage.
I have all my dog's snake proofed. That doesn't stop them from getting on top of one in the pursuit of their quarry that is what the vest is for.
My vet stated he has only saved one dog in 40 year's from a timber rattler bit no matter the size of the dog until the vaccine came out.
