Snake Bite in December?

[skeetermc]

I took my girls for a quail hunt yesterday the temperature was in the high twenties low thirties. My dog Millie was the first out of the box because she gets very excited and and howls If she don't get to hunt. She was her typical self, all excited and ready to go. Thirty minutes later she was at my feet acting strange. I knew something was wrong by the way she was acting so I took her back to the truck. When we got to the tail gate I checked her temp and it was 102 , but her gums were white and she refused water. I field treated her hypothermia and low blood sugar. Thinking there was no way for rattlesnakes to be above ground in that cold of weather. Her face didn't swell a lot but I found a hard knot on her upper right lip. She is better today, little listless but eating and wagging her tail. Has anybody had a dog bit in these type of weather conditions? Thursday was 72 but it cooled to 50s and then to the low thirties high twenties the day we hunted.

[AZ Brittany Guy]

I was at a Field Trial in Sonata AZ in January about 4 years ago. It was 17 degrees when I got up at 5AM. At 7AM a fellow field trailer stepped out of the Port - O - Potty and about stepped on a Green Mojave. Three other diamond backs were killed on the road and around the campsite during two weeks of trials.

[Donnytpburge]

The biggest rattler I have ever killed was in December

6 ft long 14 and a button

I make my living in the woods and see snakes
All year long, they are much slower in the cold
But are still out.

Db

[AWSjr]

I am 70 years old and have hunted quail in Texas since 1961, from the valley to Lubbock. The snakes never go in and stay for a long period. Sunny afternoons (above 50 degrees) on South facing hill sides are the most likely spots. In South Texas you are never safe, not even marginally. In the Panhandle and up on the Canadian you are a little better off. I lost a big pointer on the first day of January 1974 in Killeen Texas and a setter in 1968 in Alice Texas in February. They never go in to stay. I have seen them so cold deer hunting that you could flip a coiled rattler over with your rifle barrel. I might be the only one with this experience, but this is what happened to me. I can't talk about copperheads because I lose control of all my bodily functions.....

[coonhunter4912]

I was coonhunting in east ky 2 nights ago and my treeing walker female came back to the truck wimpering after 2 hours of letting her loose with a softball knot on her neck with two bite marks in the middle,im not sure if it was a rattler but the tempature was low 20's