On Sunday we decided to go to mucky pond on the far side of Lychett Bay from us. We got to the beach there about 11 and waited for the tide to come in. Buster stayed close and Dainty went off ferreting in the grass. After about half an hour she came down to a patch on the beach. I was watching her when she jumped back and shook her head. I called her over and after spotting a puncture wound on her nose we packed up quickly and started to head back. After a couple of minutes I had to pick Dainty up because she wouldn’t walk.
We got back to the road and I went to a house and got them to get the emergency vet number for me. They were brilliant. I then phoned a taxi and got us all in and dropped Ang and Buster off at mine then went on to Castle Lane where the emergency clinic is. Dainty stayed in over night and had loadsa morphine and steroids. I picked her up in a taxi at about 6.45 this morning and then took her to our vets a bit later. They gave her another steroid injection and then I brought her home again.
Her face and neck are very swollen which the vets says will last 3 or 4 days. I examined her collar earlier and there is more room under it now so looks like it is starting to go down. She’s very quiet but has been out and had a wee. She’s eaten a small amount of chicken and a few titbits. She hasn’t drunk yet but she’s sleepy from the morphine.
With taxi’s and emergency vet somewhere in the region of £400.
All thanks to an adder
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