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My female Callie, purchased from Lynn Perkins passed away last night. Terrible way to go. She was bit on the neck by a snake. Her head swelled up like a basketball. Vet gave me medicine, she seemed to be getting better, then took a turn for the worse. Right up to the end, she was wagging her tail as I rubbed her head. Terrible way to go. With most dogs I have we are business partners, I feed em and run em and they earn their keep. But this was a special dog, we had a real connection, like we could read each other. I was running her everyday up to her getting bit. She was becoming an awesome dog. Makes me wanna give up runnin beagles.

Sorry to hear about callie,she was a very nice young hound,always hunted so hard for the jump.

do you know what kind of snake it was?i heared rattle snakes where bad down your way.we have copperheads up here,they are bad enough.

sorry for your loss.

sorry for your loss

Sorry for your loss. I know first hand what its like to lose that special dog.

sorry for your loss , glad we don't have snakes like that up here in mi. .

I suspect it was a copperhead. Although there are rattlers, copperheads are much more common. She had been running along a creek bank in some thick cover. Thats the way it goes sometimes. Lynn, that callie dog was a real jump dog. She had really come along, and I had been hoping to start her in some little pack trials. Oh, well. I guess I will be looking for another pup.

Sorry to hear that. You mentioned she was running a creek bank - any chance it was a cottonmouth/water moccasin? Of course a bite to the neck could carry the venom straight to the heart and have more damage. Again, sorry for your loss, why is it always the good ones?

RabbitRodeo wrote:I suspect it was a copperhead. Although there are rattlers, copperheads are much more common. She had been running along a creek bank in some thick cover. Thats the way it goes sometimes. Lynn, that callie dog was a real jump dog. She had really come along, and I had been hoping to start her in some little pack trials. Oh, well. I guess I will be looking for another pup.

I'm not saying they want but i have yet to see a bite from a copperhead kill one,but anything is possible.I would suspect a Rattler,a bite to the head or neck area and their body temp. hot from running will take one down fast.Give me a yell,got several crosses you can choose from,can't replace Callie but a new pup might fill in the cracks some what.

The vet also told me that he had never seen a copperhead kill a dog. I usually walk pretty close to the dogs, I reckon I might be a gettin me some snake proof boots. Lynn, I will holler at you to see about a pup. Thanks

Sorry for your loss. Its hard to replace the good ones. I went through the same thing a couple of weeks ago with my Dot female. She had been running with the pack for about 4 hours and when I went to putting dogs up I noticed she wasn't with them. I spotted her 10 minutes later laying out in the field with her head and neck all swollen up. She acted like she didn't have the strength to get up so I carried her to the house but she didn't make it very long. My vet said it sounded like a rattlesnake bite and that there wasn't much could be done for one that was bitten in the neck area. She had just weaned off a litter of pups about 2 weeks before this.

Why is it always the favorite ones that seem to be taken away early?

I have buried my 2 favorite hounds (both around 2 years old) and still have an old rabbit dog that is good but I am just not emotionally attached to like the others had to bury.

you know the good die young. y we never know.i feel your pain and hope you get another. the main event

sorry about your dog, done killed three this month,copperheads,one was 2&half ft.&the other ones babys. I have eight beagle& I worry about that myself but what do you do run them sorry

I am sure you guys all have similar stories, such is life. It really stunk because my 6 year old son was wanting us to start running her in little pack. We were really excited about her, the daily running was really paying off. I am thinking about getting my son and I another pup real soon. We have two other male dogs, they are nothing special though.