QLD’s Bravest Pupper Fights Second Super-Deadly Snake Bite In Two Weeks

We ask a lot of our dogs: that they answer our phonesmodel our pantyhosesoundtrack our meme-loving lives, and be very good boys and girls. They enrich our very existence with their musicality and poor depth perception. And what do we do in return for these unimaginable riches, given so selflessly? We bring them here, to Australia, the land of just unreasonable numbers of things that want to kill, maim, eat and otherwise inconvenience our poochy pals. You know, like snakes.
Australia: like this, but worse.
This story begins with Tigger, a chocolate Labrador from the Brisbane suburb of Collingwood Park, who returned from his daily dog business with a dead Eastern brown snake. While Tigger was a little bloodied, his owner Nick Barnes assumed that he had just scratched himself on his adventures. However, the next day, when the sweet pooch was struggling to walk, he realised that the murderous worm must have snuck in a final Bad Bite. 
Fortunately, after rushing Tigger to the vet to be treated with anti-venom, the sweet, good pooch lived to romp again…
…directly into the path of a red-bellied black snake!
Less than two weeks after the first run-in with V For Ven(om)detta, Tigger was bitten again, and this time so was Barnes’s other dog, Rosie. What have these furry chocolate angels done to deserve such a litany of tooth-tail horrors?!
A vision of a friendship that will never be. 
Barnes spoke to the Queensland Times about the ordeal:
It’s like a nightmare. I am so lucky I was home. I’ve lived here for four and a half years and have never seen a snake. I just can’t believe my dogs have been bitten by two of the most venomous land snakes in Australia in less than two weeks. I don’t know if it’s the heat but something is bringing more of them out.
Both dogs are recovering, but the vet bills are, as you can imagine, astronomical. Barnes has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $5,000 for their treatment, saying that “any extra donations will go to the Animal Welfare League Queensland.” 
Get well soon, Tigger and Rosie. You’re too good for this world, but this world’s no good without you.
Image: Nick Barnes / GoFundMe.

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