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Subject Topic: Adder bite warning for dog owners Post Reply Post New Topic
09/6/2012 at 12:28pm
 Location: here.there.everywhere
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Our elderly dog was bitten last Easter on Anglesey (if I knew how to post a photo on this forum, I'd post one to show you the sorry state of her).
She went out on her morning walk a normal dog and came back as one near death. It being Easter, we couldn't find a local vet open (we didn't know at the time what was wrong; we thought she'd had a heart seizure) and we didn't get her to the vet until 24 hours later. We were quite frantic.

She survived, but we had a very traumatic time with her. The dog before us at the vets had also been bitten by an adder.

If you're out in the countryside, especially on a hot day and you notice your dog become ill very quickly, think adder bite and get to a vet as soon as you can.

Although she survived, she was never the same dog again and we eventually had to put her to sleep.

We have other dogs and so I now google vets in any new touring area and keep a contact number in my phone.

Stay safe with your much loved doggie pals.



09/6/2012 at 2:59pm
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So sorry to hear about your dog.

Didnt realise that adders were on Anglesey,we are going to Nothumberland in July and have heard that some are up there.

Good advise about keeping local vets numbers in your phone.Our springer spaniel just loves to rummage around in the undergrowth so we will certainly be a bit more cautious with her now.

 



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09/6/2012 at 3:54pm
 Location: Norwich
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Adders are widespread throughout the UK, but they are very shy and "run" from almost anything. Your poor dog probably startled it whilst it was sunbathing. Although rarely seen, they are fairly common in coastal sand dunes, so tread noisily when going to the beach.

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09/6/2012 at 5:38pm
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Our GSD was bitten by an Adder and her nose swelled up ..... she, also, wasn't the same dog afterwards - it kind of changed her somehow.

She got over it within 48 hours.

Now she is dying with a Tumour and being too old to operate (and tumour too aggressive) .... keep an eye on them when in Adder countryside.



09/6/2012 at 9:38pm
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For those of you that have iphones there is an app called VET that finds the nearest vet to your location, which we have used a couple times.


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10/6/2012 at 8:39am
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Loads of adders around here when it was sunny, they like to sunbathe, and several nests were sighted in a field beloved by dog walkers. They haven't been seen since the wet and cold weather came back though, but it does seem that that spell of hot weather brought them out in force. I've never heard of them being around here, but I suppose they are everywhere, just that we don't come across them very often.

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10/6/2012 at 10:09am
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sorry about the dog ,is there an antidote we can carry with us just in case on these times we visit  high risk areas,


10/6/2012 at 10:26am
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We have been given an antidote by a friend who's a holistic therapist (don't know what it is) but he says it will 'do' till we get to a vet. Just hope we never need it, but it stays in the glove box of the car.




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