Snake Bit Dog Bites Back

A Casper, Wyoming man’s best friend, Tanker Truck (an 11-month old black Lab) was bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake on May 15.  Normally, this would kill a dog, but it so happened that his owner was dog’s best friend.  He grabbed the dog and sucked the poison out of Tank’s nose.

“It was 20 minutes to town and I knew he would not make it. So I grabbed his nose and started sucking the rattlesnake poison out of the top of  his nose and spit it on the ground.” Jenkins said in a Casper Star-Tribune news article.

The man, Bobby Jenkins, called his mother thereafter and had her race to the Vet for some anti-venom, and the dog was saved.

Yet, when Jenkins’ mother saw her son turning white, they rushed him to the ER, and had to pony up $14,000 per vial for 4 vials of anti-venom at $3,500 each — for him. A nurse told Jenkins that sucking out the venom was the wrong thing to do…  (Nurse Obvious.)

Happily, both Jenkins and his dog are now doing fine.