The American Beagler Forum

what do you give dog for snake bite most likely copper head... seem's to be bit on belly swallon alot...

I have no personal experience but, this is a good site. Most of the websites say benedryl.

http://www.raidthewind.com/snakebite.htm

good luck,

Leah

yeah benadryl...keep him up for a couple days. plenty of water. If it was a copperhead he should be ok tomorrow.if it was a rattler ....This post is to late..I have been through it 1/2 dozen times. never lost one yet
G

This was two days ago. They are thick at my house. killed his brother in the drive two days before that..

thank you all ,,,, it's been a few hour's now an i finnally got hold of my vet so he'll be going to see the doc now,,,,, this is the second time in a year for this dog... guess i better keep some snake med on hand... again thank you all for the help....

what is snake med? I am not sure what the vet will do exept give you a big sun. bill. Good luck

looks like a copperhead but its tail looks pointed I thought a copperhead has a blunt tail some water snakes look like copperheads but if he is swelling bad it was probally a copperhead Lynn posted on here a couple days ago what to do with a snake bite its what all the oldtimers around here always told me to do also.

I gave my dog pennecilyn when he was snakebitten.

I have always been told the benedryl thing. Been told it really works. Good luck with it.

a vet told me to never give them benafryl for a swnake bite!! i usually dont do anything but a shot of pennacyllin i use to pour turpitine n give them the benadryl but now just the pennacyllin jb

[quote="windsplitters"]looks like a copperhead but its tail looks pointed I thought a copperhead has a blunt tail some water snakes look like copperheads .

ITS a coperhead. I have never seen a water snake that looked like a coperhead..

See linc http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/gaston/Pests/re ... erhead.htm

Looks like a copperhead to me.

That pic is a copperhead. I've had 1 dog bitten and I gave Benadryll and Penicillin, although some give Dex. Ronnie - make sure you take the collar off, the dog can die of asphixiation if its neck swells.

I never ment that it was'nt a copperhead i was just trying to say their are other snakes that resemble copperheads sometimes they get confussed for one. The picture you got I believe is a copperhead the Milksnake and Northern brown Water snake I think are the two I was talking about. eather way hope the dog gets over it with no problems.

took dog to vet last night got 2 shot's an dog is doing great today,,,, again thank's to all...