The Pit -Viper that bit our husky

This is the hognosed pit viper that bit our husky. These snakes are generally small and sluggish. They do not attack without being provoked, in case you were feeling bad for our dog! We have had very dry days lately and the snake came out to our gravel driveway to soak up some sun. It is lucky that Smokey found him first because the snake was scarily close to our house. We wear boots when we walk through the grass but when I am just hanging laundry I am only wearing sandals. We got Smoke to the vet on time for the anti-venom but not before his nose blew us to 3 times normal size. We were lucky to notice immediately after it happened or we could have lost him.

Welcome to the snake pit

Another shot of a hog-nosed pit viper. This has been my favorite snake that we have caught so far. His coloring and markings are just beautiful. No animals are ever hurt in our photography and we always put them back close to where they came from. When we want to snake to play nice, we simply fill a 5 gallon bucket with water put a branch or a flower in the bucket with rocks and then place the snake on the branch. He can not slither away because he would fall in the water.

Beautiful Blue Pit Viper

This little (extremely poisonous) sweetie was right next to my foot as I was putting out laundry. I was very lucky that I saw it in time to get out of the way! After we take some more shots this morning we are going to take it back in the jungle and let it go. It is officially a rainforest hog nosed pit viper. So beautiful.

A shoot with a Viper

We were lucky enough to stumble upon another viper on our farm. This guy endured many an hour in a 2 liter plastic coke bottle so that he could calm down and learn to love the camera. He was squirmy but Barry endured and got these wonderful shots. If you were wondering, all I had to do was hold the flash and not freak out. I got a "C-" for the assignment.