Bitten in Eyeball By Copperhead Yesterday

Sep 9, 2016 4:04 PM

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My brother's dog, Gia, attacked and bitten in eyeball by a copperhead

He rushed her to ER vet to save her life then to a vet ophthalmologist to try to save her eye, but the venom had done too much damage.
Poor little dog.

Gia The One-Eyed Dog

Aaaaargh.

samuel barkson?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Give her a googly eye on the eyepatch.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would so get that baby a real pirate eye patch to wear

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

This is awful, but now the rest of her life will be spectacular! Thems the rules! Lose an appendage, gain a lifetime of happiness.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ok ok... Step on snek

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

????????????????????

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ahoy Mate

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Confused at feeling sorry for the dog losing its eye, but kind of jealous how bad ass she looks with an eye patch.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He became a true Diamond Dog :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh no poor baby!!!!!

9 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 1

That's literally what I said when I saw the first picture... How did you know?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Pls get it an actual eye patch

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gia is doing great! Thanks for all the well wishing comments! She wanted to play frisbee yesterday!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OHHH SHES SO CUTE

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's the Dread Pirate Dogerts!

9 years ago | Likes 199 Dislikes 0

Fezzik, tear his arms off.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It's Jake from Tales of the Gold Monkey!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It should have been you Monzcarro Murcatto.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your pupper lost her peeper :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Brave little pupper.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn danger noddles

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

the last one reminds me of https://i.imgsafe.org/3e81192d4d.jpg

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dogs don't use their eyes much anyways

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So sorry this happened to Gia. What a sweetheart.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Am snek, doing me an annoy, I bite your peeper

9 years ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 14

Eye for an eye, snek..watch yer back

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

The Boston Terrier is the greatest breed of dog. Feel free to be wrong if your opinion differs. Best of luck to this pup.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Amen to that.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Agreed! She is doing very well just 2 days later!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

thats one hell of a bar story

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I beat the snake to death with a 2x4

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i meant for the dog in a dog bar. but yea 2x4 def works for human bar story

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It could have been much worse. Poor thing. Did they need to administer antivenin? As small as she is, she's very lucky to have survived.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

They did administer antivenom. She is lucky.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I worked in venom research in the 1990's. The science has grown quite a bit since then. Still astonishingly expensive per vial.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I can't believe the prices on crofab. Also how would I possibly break into that field? Any tips

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Much harder to get in now. I knew Bill Haast, and had a passion for hot snakes. So it was mostly luck and meeting the right people.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wow that's awesome. Must have been a great experience for you. Are you still involved with hots?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Poor baby girl! I'm sending my love to Gia, and death wishes to the copperhead.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Snake won't bite out of spite. The upper was probably messing with it.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

He beat the snake to death with a 2 x 4 "and it still wasn't satisfying enough" ( Sorry to you herpetologists out there )

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Rude. Snake probably minding its business when the pupper started pestering it. People just loath them for some reason.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I just don't like snakes. Too spoopy, and deadly for me.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not particularly. But then, I like them, and study them.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, Gia was pestering it... But I dodnt want to later step on it myself and get bit, it was 37" long

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good sized copperhead. But copperheads are generally mild tempered. Like I said, best plan is watchfulness and avoidance.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Though I'm glad Gia made it through mostly unscathed.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Snake won't bite unless the dog is fucking with it. Leave them be, and they'll leave you be.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

was a joke bud to be fair though the dog could have just been sniffing at a hole or something like that

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Very true, but according to the statistics thats a very low percentage of bites.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can see that but we can both agree here poor little guy

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh yeah its still awful for the wee thing.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0