Poor baby! My lab got a rattler bite in the face. It looked like it was a one-fanged hit, but his head swelled like a sumbitch (he lived, his next trick was a brawl with a family of pissed off raccoons in the house’s crawlspace).
I strongly suspect another lab died from a copperhead or timber rattler bite to the face (in New Jersey). Healthy one moment, then dead a few hours later. She had symptoms that closely matched venom injection.
