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While hunting Wednesday night we had a young dog get snake bit. The man we were hunting with, a coon hunter for 30 plus years, said to force feed the dog a half stick of butter. He said it draws the poison out. That was a new one for me. Has anyone here ever heard of that?

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I've heard of using hog Lard never tried it but heard it works great.

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seems to me peanut butter would help to thicken up the blood better because it's already thicker.

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ive heard of it but never tried it

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we feed warm grease to snake bit dogs and never had any more problems seems it would be about the same thing

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we feed warm grease to snake bit dogs

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is a natrual antitoxin.

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just heat it up and pour a little in bowl they will eat it by it self

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We have used lard. I used to keep a small cup in my dog box. Put a handful in the dog's mouth. I've heard that it absorbs the poison. I have never seen a hog, wild or domestic, die from a snake bite, so it must work. This is an old remedy used by old fox and coon hunters around the swamps of middle Georgia.

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** After you put the lard in the dog's mouth, make sure they swallow it and do not spit it out.

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We have used lard. I used to keep a small cup in my dog box. Put a handful in the dog's mouth. I've heard that it absorbs the poison. I have never seen a hog, wild or domestic, die from a snake bite, so it must work. This is an old remedy used by old fox and coon hunters around the swamps of middle Georgia.

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So let me get this straight you have actually watched hogs get snake bit and witnessed they didn't die? Holy Crap now I have heard it all. You know for certain that wild hogs get snake bit and live? Keep up the good work Greg everytime you speak you further prove what an idiot you are. By the way, how was your little meeting? Hear it didn't go so well. Sorry about that bud.

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The folks that lived behind us had a bunch of hogs years ago, they would eat anything that hit the ground. It was a waste of time looking for a bird if it fell accross the fence, after the first shot they lined up, there wasn't a feather left. I saw them snack on more than one copperhead . The cottonmouths met the same fate if they ever got a foot on him out of the water ! I saw the snakes strike, didn't seem to impress the hog, just put it's foot down on it and dinner was served .

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My grandma and grandpa live on the moutain there whole lives.They had an old mutt that stayed up there that seemed to get snake bit daily.Granny would always bring him in the house and give him bacon grease and raw eggs he finaly died of old age.I don't know how many times he got rattlesnake bit but I know it was alot, so I guess grannys old remedy worked.

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Most dogs that get bit are ok by the next day weather you doctor them or not. Most remides don't do any good.

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all those home remedies are the result of desperate people with nothing else to try. there is no way that stuff can work. the poison is in the bloodstream. the bacon grease is in the digestive tract and takes hours to get into the bloodstream and by then it's not bacon grease. you might as well smear some honey on it because honey was thought by many, back in the day, to be a mystery cure all. almost every year we read about some old timer that cures snake bites by shocking the wound with a hot spark plug wire.

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the poison gathers in the tissue and after awhile it goes into the rest of the body,unless it put directly into a main vessel.The greatest danger of a bite is going into shock.Animals do have a greater resistants to a bite.I guess the heat from a electrical current might have some kind of nutralizing effect on the toixn,or the heat draws it out.Milk,eggs,etc,slows down the matabolsim of the body.

Just something I read.

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all those home remedies are the result of desperate people with nothing else to try. there is no way that stuff can work. the poison is in the bloodstream. the bacon grease is in the digestive tract and takes hours to get into the bloodstream and by then it's not bacon grease. you might as well smear some honey on it because honey was thought by many, back in the day, to be a mystery cure all. almost every year we read about some old timer that cures snake bites by shocking the wound with a hot spark plug wire.

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Hogs do not have any sweat glands and naturally immune to snake venom.

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Maybe I should eat more butter and bacon grease each morning in case I ever get bit.

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