Comments on: Tuesday Book Club

By: robin

robin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:49:31 +0000

Oh, good, Jules. I’ll be interested in hearing about that.

By: jules

jules — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:16:36 +0000

Reading Un Lun Dun by China Mielville, which is the type of novel I don’t normally read (fantasy-esque). Good stuff. (It’s technically YA). I plan to review it when I’m done (at our site, of course).

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:55:46 +0000

This wiener and my ridgeback are very cautious with outside critters and have stayed clear in the past - when they see/hear one. She smelled strongly of Rosemary and that bush is her favorite one, so I think she just got under there and the snake and her surprised each other. (Should I paragraph break here?) [Yeah, let's do.--Mgmt]

The weiner pup is the one I worry about-he just lacks experience and I might consider the dangerous critter avoidance class for him. Though I’ve heard mixed results from those classes - a lot depends on the trainer.

You’ve sure got the expensive part right - I should have been a vet.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:50:16 +0000

Geez, Little Willow, I don’t know those books, either. I need to get out more.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:47:46 +0000

TALL TALES by Karen Day
THE TAKER by J.M. Steele

By: annette

annette — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:18:54 +0000

damn straight rb.
[Here, Annette. Let me put a paragraph break here for ya.--Mgmt.]

d. i’m rooting for your little weiner dog. i have a friend who is taking her dog to a “snake awareness” class were they (the dogs) are taught to be wary, as opposed to curious, about snakes. i quess i just assumed that dogs are naturally (ie process of evolution) snake avoidant, which your own experience proves, is not the case.

my own dog although, thankfully, having no snake tales to tell (yet) has had run-ins with a poisonous toad and killer bees, both experiences very unpleasant, and expensive.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:09:28 +0000

Don’t mention it. It’s a service I perform for Annette all the time.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:05:48 +0000

Thanks. And thanks for giving me paragraphs too.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:41:56 +0000

Wow, Deborah. Thanks for sharing! Those of us with pets are grateful for the information.

Hope your little one is back to her old self soon!

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:35:59 +0000

I wasn’t sure at first if it was a snake bite, but she was outside and came in crying and pawing at her mouth-it began to swell -a lot- immediately and it was so painful she wouldn’t let me touch it. She was getting increasingly distressed,shaking, sucked in stomach, panicked eyes, etc. The amount of pain and the instant swelling was not consistent with insect, scorpion, wasp, pack rat, etc. bite and since I have seen rattlers in the backyard before I began thinking that way. DID NOT PANIC.

Took her vitals (minus temp as I don’t have a rectal therm-note to self- buy one), kept her as immobile as I could,called vet and did 90 mph down Speedway. Her head/neck is now about 3 times it’s usual size, but it wasn’t until this morning when we could get her mouth open that we could see the puncture wounds inside her upper lip. Intravenous Benadryl, antibiotics, fluids, blood draw for platelets count. She was doing OK until this afternoon and I was actually there to take her home when she began bleeding (the big danger with hematoxins) at IV site-in an amount that made vet keep her and we will continue to do platelets counts and fluids, antibiotics and Benadryl.

Unfortunately, time has passed for anti-venin (must be within first 4 hours of bite) and its use is somewhat controversial for canines anyway and we weren’t entirely sure it was a snake bite and didn’t want to compromise her condition if it wasn’t. Most vets treat with loads of Benadryl, fluids and antibiotics. Did you know it can take up to 72 hours for snake bite symptoms to show in dogs? This is probably more info than you wanted to know, but I’ve read just about everything on the internet on this topic. She is such a sweetheart too. She’s a little too yappy for me most days, but tonight it is too quiet here.