Good advice Goodman. I made the decision not to carry her to the vet; actually the vet we use don’t keep the anti-venom on hand. I’ve second guessed my decision all night but that accomplishes nothing. I know in 3 hours at the most she was dead from the time she was bit. I figure it was a diamondback; I have about a 4 month old cutover behind my house that is grown up quickly with all this rain, so prime territory for them. I really thought she was gonna pull through after she got calm, reckon that was the Benadryl doing that. We are going to contact the other vet here locally to see if they keep the anti-venom on hand and get an estimated cost just in case we have another incident.

You reckon being Dog Days of summer had a factor in the amount of venom the snake injected her with?