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Originally Posted by roddy1960
Sorry to read your moggy got bit ..Glad he survived though but cats are buggers for this .
I lost my old tom cat in the early noughties when a whip snake got him . He survived the night but we lost him next day at the vet clinic . He couldn't resist trying to fish them out of the logs and stuff . Brought a couple of dead ones home first though .Clyde was only five too.. Interesting thing about the fourth most venomous snake and like the big one I came across a week ago ..the Tiger snake. They often only dry warning bite the first strike and why the medic's or vets in pet situations more often than not don't administer anti venom immediately . It's a watch and act thing really and correct immobilisation and pressure bandaging goes a long way to a good outcome .
Regardless of the species that generally applies nowadays of course but the tiger snake is more known for warning bites than others so I was told by a Reptile Rescue fellow a few years ago at a PL day I attended on First Aid..
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Animals are strange roddy.
Sorry to hear about yours mate.
My mate was telling me that cats are actually far more tolerant in his experience. He was telling me of one case where two brothers (dogs) were bitten. One looked terrible and one not too bad. Both needed anti venene and next day the crook one survived and the other one that was doing ok was dead.
Your cat must have copped a big dose. One problem with tigers is ml for ml there venom is extremely potent, so it doesn't take much I guess.
Lucky we don't see any tigers up here, they are around perth I think.
Carnac island is notorious for them. A lot of them are blind. The seagulls peck their eyes out.
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