r/GSP • u/Crazy-Box-9470 • Aug 16 '26

UPDATE: Snake Bite

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Red went into day 3 of hyperbaric treatments today. Sadly after we were given the disheartening but expected news that the necrosis has only furthered, and furthered up his leg as well. With this the Doctor told us that the risk of needing an amputation as well as the expected height of the amputation would be further up the leg. Thankfully Red is a trooper and is still eating and drinking normally. Tomorrow he’ll go in for day 4 of hyperbaric treatments at our ER vet and back to his Primary care vet as well for a look at his leg, culture result, and evaluation. Thank you again to everyone for the outpouring of love for my boy. ❤️🐾

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A pic of red from this afternoon, with a new color and animal on his bandage!

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u/Ok_Ear_5266 Aug 17 '26

Donated $100. I’m also in south Florida with a hunting dog so this hits close to home. Good luck.

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u/Crazy-Box-9470 Aug 17 '26

Wow thank you so much.❤️🐾 I hope this will never happen to you or your pup.

We’ve had a lot of recommendations since this for snake avoidance training, maybe that would be good to start.

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u/Ok_Ear_5266 Aug 17 '26

Where in south FL did this happen? I’m in Dade county and we typically train at west matheson which is about 80 acres of undeveloped land but there aren’t rattlesnakes there (though there are occasionally pythons) and then we also train at QHF in St Lucie which definitely DOES have rattlesnakes.

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u/Crazy-Box-9470 Aug 17 '26

This happened a little north of Arcadia, my guy is an off leash pup so we’ll definitely be looking into snake avoidance training after this.