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– Injecting your horse or cow with petrol as it supposedly neutralises snakebite e venom. – Cutting the tip of the animal’s ear to let the venom ‘bleed out’. Popular myths that are meaningless in saving your pet or farm animal after a snakebite: If the animal does not receive a lethal amount of venom, it will survive, perhaps with some tissue damage otherwise it will recover fully in due course (simple logic, but that’s the deal).Īmputations in dogs are not uncommon and even snakes with relatively mild venom like the Night Adder may cause sufficient damage to necessitate amputation. If an animal is bitten by a snake and receives a lethal amount of snake venom, the animals will die unless treated with antivenom. Pets and farm animals suffer the same fate and it is not unusual for dogs to get bitten by a snake, have some swelling and to survive without antivenom. Less than 20% of all humans bitten by a snake require urgent medical care, including antivenom. In essence, snakebite envenomation on animals is no different from that on humans.