[fred cook]

Last year one of my dogs was bitten by a very large rattlesnake (we think). A trip to the vet, several days stay and two vials of $500 each anti venom later the dog is ok. The wallet, however, was flat as a flitter! I live in South Georgia and we tend to see several different types of venomous snakes here. A while back, we killed a 5-6 ft rattlesnake and not too long before that a neighbor killed a very large water moccasin. We see more Oak snakes (non poisonous) here but even those will cause you to hurt yourself! My antidote for a snake is usually a 20 gauge!