Brown snake kills man trying to protect dog

[Still Waters]

A man has died less than an hour after being bitten by a brown snake while trying to protect his pet dog in north-west New South Wales.

The 24-year-old was bitten on the finger in the backyard of his Cole Road home in Tamworth on Wednesday night.

"He went to investigate his small dog barking and found the dog to have a small brown snake in his mouth," Sergeant Josh McKenzie said.

"He's then gone to try and separate the dog from the snake and was bitten on the finger."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-12/brown-snake-bites-man-who-dies-within-hour-in-tamworth/9322912

[DebDandelion]

Shame....I feel bad for the dude. We have quite a few snakes here and our dogs also take them on. Only diff is we have four dogs and they tag with the snakes....so there is very little left.

[Piney]

26 minutes ago, DebDandelion said:

Shame....I feel bad for the dude. We have quite a few snakes here and our dogs also take them on. Only diff is we have four dogs and they tag with the snakes....so there is very little left.

The herders who patrol the boss's farm doe the same thing here. I manage to rescue most of them and carry them to the orchard though.

[Hre2breal]

So very sad, I was thinking that I probably would have done the same thing...but so sad for his family...No snakes in NZ so happy for that..