Baby saved from Rattlesnake!

[tanya]

Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners' 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.

"She got in between Booker and the snake, and that's when I heard her yipe," said Monty Long, the boy's grandfather.

The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.

"These little bitty dogs, they just don't really get credit," Booker's grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.

[rockgremlin]

Sounds sensationalized...

Snakes don't slither up to humans and attack unprovoked. The snake probably struck because the dog confronted it.

[tanya]

So much for the brave little dog that saves the baby :mrgreen:

[Kent K25]

Sounds sensationalized...

Snakes don't slither up to humans and attack unprovoked. The snake probably struck because the dog confronted it.

Amen to that, I'm a big time snake lover. I've had lots of them over the years, unfortunately the apartments we're in allow no pets so I had to find them new homes, but I'll have more.

Still...no way a rattler would openly confront anything bigger than it, if it didn't have to.

There are snakes all around us most of the time, and we never see them, and they like to keep it that way.

[KillEmAll]

Now c'mon, we all know that snakes have a taste for baby flesh. Snakes are keen to the fact that once they suck baby blood they become immortal, and are free haunt mankind for all eternity. It's common knowledge.

[Kent K25]

Now c'mon, we all know that snakes have a taste for baby flesh. Snakes are keen to the fact that once they suck baby blood they become immortal, and are free haunt mankind for all eternity. It's common knowledge.

Yeah...no more Harry Potter books for you...

[tanya]

Sounds sensationalized...

Snakes don't slither up to humans and attack unprovoked. The snake probably struck because the dog confronted it.

Amen to that, I'm a big time snake lover. I've had lots of them over the years, unfortunately the apartments we're in allow no pets so I had to find them new homes, but I'll have more.

Still...no way a rattler would openly confront anything bigger than it, if it didn't have to.

There are snakes all around us most of the time, and we never see them, and they like to keep it that way.


We could tell that from your snake pic.

I love them too! Here is a photo of me with snake -- when I was younger -- somewhere in my 30's
http://www.zionnational-park.com/images/jpegs/coral-pink-sand-dunes-a.jpg

http://www.zionnational-park.com/sdfauna.htm

[Kent K25]

Ooohhh I love kingsnakes, one of my favorite breeds I ever kept. Pretty sure I have a pic of the wife with a Kingsnake somewhere from when we were dating.

[tanya]

I lost this one in a gopher hole when I was taking it for a walk. ~yeah... I know, but even a snake needs fresh air. .....

:mrgreen:

[JP]

Poor snake :haha:

[tanya]

I cried!!! I was soooooooooooooo sad!!!!!