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10:12 am: buffy vs snake
My dogs are both afraid of snakes. They avoid them. When there is a snake in the yard, they whine and complain and fidget around until we go and fix it for them. We generally fix it by chasing the snake away or throwing it over the fence; don't worry, we're pro-snake and don't kill 'em. It's almost always a big ole black racer, totally harmless. We should in theory only have copperheads around here, as far as venomous goes, and we haven't seen one of those in a couple of years. So it is a mystery to me how Buffy wound up with this nasty snake bite on Saturday. We think he was working on one of his diggin' holes and stuck a paw in, unaware that the hole was occupied.

We were at the vet within 25 minutes of the bite, and they gave him a steroid shot, lasix, and sent us home with antibiotics and torb. Around here the snakebites usually aren't serious. Three hours after the bite, just after we returned from the first vet visit, not looking so bad:

Well, things became much worse from there, and the rest is behind the cut.
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05:19 pm: Cricket and Nana
sleeping weasels... aw...

04:58 pm: Pumpkin when he was orange
and this is why he was named Pumpkin:



Yeah, he turned white after he had a chance to grow in a new coat. He was an intact hob from a nasty back yard breeder and was stained from musk and pee. I miss the old man.

08:46 pm: Yetti digs up my plants


another one, bigger, is behind the cut (tryin' to figure this stuff out, ya know):

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