Snake bite?
We took Lucy to the vet today
because she had a swollen cheek.
The doctor thinks it could
have been a snake bite, most likely a Black Rat snake.
Antibiotics and an extra Milk
Bone should have her feeling better in no time.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Poor Lucy! Hope she is healed up soon. Dogs can sure run into trouble. And non venomous snakes can still cause infection. Our dog Tucker developed an abcess on the top of his snout, and within days, the entire area erupted... We called it his nose explosion. It was very nasty looking. The vet believed it was some kind of auto immune reaction, and he would need steroids the rest of his life. But we believed that it was from an earlier (6 months or so) encounter with a porcupine. We think spines broke off in the roof of his mouth and eventually worked their way up to the surface, causing the abcess.the vet was very surprised that it eventually healed up.