May 2, 2010: I was working on the driveway trying to repair some damage from the storm that flooded Nashville when Puppy came up and he was looking really pathetic. I picked him up and guessed that he had been bitten by a snake. I took him to the house but got worried when he started to swell up and wanted to sleep and tried to hide under the bed. I took him to the animal hospital and they checked him and said he had been bitten by a poisonous snake but that his temperature, respiration, and heartrate were OK. They gave him an antibiotic and some pain medicine. They had antivenin but it was $800 per vial, it was good that it was not needed!
It took a couple of days but Puppy has recovered and is feeling well. Puppy weighs 16 lbs. The swelling under his neck has gone away, he still has some damage near the wound on his right upper muzzle.
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