11/03/2025
It’s been a little quiet around here lately, just busy with personal stuff but here is an educational post for you guys.
A couple weeks ago both Lolite and Paladin were snake bit, likely a copperhead by the way it presented. They both recovered fine initially but we noticed after about a week that Paladin looked slightly odd, almost like one morning his eyes were very large ‘googly’ if you will and he acted light sensitive. I immediately took him to my vet who was skeptical that anything was wrong. To him Paladin looked normal but I insisted that something was off and offered a possible diagnosis based on my own research which my vet agreed to treat as based on symptoms.
Long story short my hypothesis was correct and Paladin had developed an extremely rare immune response called Extraocular Myositis due to the snake bite.
My vet was baffled. There is only ONE other recorded case of a dog developing that after a snake bite so that makes Paladin the second recorded case. (Yay for our animals choosing to be unique 🙄)
Thankfully he is responding well to treatment and expected to make a full recovery.
All this said to press a point. When it comes to your animals well being trust your gut. You are around them all day long and know them better than anyone so press your point when you feel something is off and don’t let a medical professional try and convince you otherwise, it is important that we stand up for our animals to not only keep them healthy but educate ourselves as well because sometimes professionals fail. They are only human after all and make mistakes or might not see things that we as owners do.
