I have never had a dog snake bit during season but I have seen rattlesnakes out during season. I have had three dogs bitten by rattlesnakes during the offseason. In all three bite incidents I was just exercising them.
I can't imagine watching my dog get taken by a 'gator. Fortunately we don't have them in this part of Texas.
Mike, didn't one of your dogs die from the bite? A man I know owned a big tract of land in the low country on a peninsular surrounded by two rivers. He watched one of his Britts get taken down swimming in the river. Another Britt went in the marsh and never returned and was presumed lost to a gator. One of his Jack Russells was killed by an Eastern Diamondback. It had survived several copperhead bites, but the EDB was too much. Another man was putting his duck boat in the river when his lab wondered off. He jacklighted the river and saw him in a gator's mouth, heading down river. Pretty horrible to see. Gil
