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Jan 20, 2010: Retriever
What do retrievers do? Retrieve.
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Bronson is a retriever extraordinaire. Ducks are his specialty, and sometimes cell phones and other out-of-place odds and ends. But this 11-year-old black lab recently came up to his owners with a startling quarry: A deadly copperhead snake. |
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His owners were able to use his excellent training to help them get him out of his scary situation alive. Deborah put a chaff bag on the ground and pulled it up over the bottom of the snake and released its coil from Bronson’s snout. Then she gave the command. “And as soon I said ‘Give’ he dropped it right into the bag and we sealed up the ends,” she says. |
| They rushed Bronson to their local vet, where tests showed he had been bitten at some point during his adventure. He spent four days on a drip at the vet’s, and is now fully recovered. |
SPUCK Wednesday Jan 20 06:12 AM
Stay tuned when next week Bronson retrieves a (fill in the blank)!
DanaC Wednesday Jan 20 06:17 AM
Stay tuned when next week Bronson retrieves a small semi-detached house!
capnhowdy Wednesday Jan 20 07:56 AM
We graduate from turduckhen to snakeador. Par boil prior to grilling.
sandypossum Wednesday Jan 20 08:06 AM
Yarragon, where Bronson & co live, is not far from us. We have copperheads and tiger snakes on our property too. We've been planning to train our new labradoodle pup not to approach them, but haven't got round to it. This is reminds me that we should do it sooner rather than later.
Our snake rule is: if they're in the paddocks or by the dam, they can stay. If they come into the garden - and especially near the house - they're dinner. No, really, dinner! Last summer we killed a big copperhead on our veranda. We peeled him and cured the skin. And then when he was nekkid, my other half said we may as well eat him. So we marinaded it and fried it up... mmmmmmistake! Tastes like chicken, but with the consistency of bicycle tyre. He was showing photos of it to his colleagues that week (he's a "new Australian" so this was his first big snake encounter) and the Chinese and Vietnamese colleagues almost pissed themselves laughing at the way we cooked it. They said snake has to be chopped up small and stewed. We now have a waiting list for the next snake dinner (Chinese, Vietnamese and British/West Indian). Strictly speaking, all snakes are protected in Australia, so this is the only way for them to eat snake. (Okay, take it away Sheldon!)
Trilby Wednesday Jan 20 08:38 AM
I do not eat serpents, Sir. may I say: Yeeeee - Uck.
monster Wednesday Jan 20 08:50 AM
We secretly replaced Bronson's leash with a deadly copperhead snake. Let's see if his owners notice....
TheMercenary Wednesday Jan 20 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by sandypossum
Yarragon, where Bronson & co live, is not far from us. We have copperheads and tiger snakes on our property too. We've been planning to train our new labradoodle pup not to approach them, but haven't got round to it. This is reminds me that we should do it sooner rather than later.
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Pete Zicato Wednesday Jan 20 09:58 AM
Thus we see the very beginning of the new copperhead retriever breed.
Shawnee123 Wednesday Jan 20 10:00 AM
A labracoppo!
newtimer Wednesday Jan 20 11:03 AM
This is exactly why some of us prefer to live in a little cabin at the North Pole. Why would anybody want to live in a place where poisonous things are slithering on the ground, waiting to bite you?
Trilby Wednesday Jan 20 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by newtimer
This is exactly why some of us prefer to live in a little cabin at the North Pole. Why would anybody want to live in a place where poisonous things are slithering on the ground, waiting to bite you?
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jinx Wednesday Jan 20 11:11 AM
Scorpions. <shudder>
Gravdigr Wednesday Jan 20 03:25 PM
Stay tuned when next week Bronson retrieves a big-ass can of snake repellant.
Nirvana Wednesday Jan 20 03:40 PM
I cannot wrap my mind around " look honey there is a snake! Lets eat it!"
sandypossum Wednesday Jan 20 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Nirvana
I cannot wrap my mind around " look honey there is a snake! Lets eat it!"
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Spexxvet Wednesday Jan 20 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Good grief... I think I'd have gotten a good hold on the stake's head with a pair of vice-grips first.
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Sundae Thursday Jan 21 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by monster
We secretly replaced Bronson's leash with a deadly copperhead snake. Let's see if his owners notice....
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Originally Posted by Nirvana
I cannot wrap my mind around " look honey there is a snake! Lets eat it!"
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Originally Posted by sandypossum
Well, he's Dutch, and is very partial to eel, and he said the nekkid snake looked like an eel, and it went from there.
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Sandy, I'm going to Amsterdam (finally!) in March. Too early for the really good raw herring, but I'm hoping to have my fill of seafood. Not sure about seamen... but Dutch men are pretty hot!
sandypossum Thursday Jan 21 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
Not sure about seamen... but Dutch men are pretty hot!
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and now I have my own Dutch treat, with his Dutch uncles, and Dutch ovens. Have fun in Amsterdam, Sundae!Juniper Friday Jan 22 09:56 AM
Rocky, my lab mix, was bit on the nose by a snake once. Fortunately we don't have venomous snakes here (except water mocs); it was a rat snake. He looks dumb as a rock (ha) but he's actually pretty smart. So I don't think he'll be doing that again.
Rat snakes, apparently, do sometimes behave like rattlesnakes -- that is, they use their tail as a rattle, shaking it against a leaf or other crackly thing to make the rattle sound. Therefore, my dear hubby truly thought our dog had been bit by a rattlesnake and it took a lot of convincing on my part to prove otherwise! Whew!
BrianR Friday Jan 22 11:40 PM
Spexx, yer supposed to BITE off the head. Real Aussies do it that way!
Pete Zicato Saturday Jan 23 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by BrianR
Spexx, yer supposed to BITE off the head. Real Aussies do it that way!
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Gravdigr Thursday Feb 4 04:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato
Ozzy Osbourne is an Aussie?
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ZenGum Thursday Feb 4 07:30 AM
Is he an Aussie, is he, Ozzy, is Ozzy an Aussie, is he, eh?
capnhowdy Thursday Feb 4 07:36 AM
The Ozman is a Brit.
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