Hero Dog Left Fighting for Life After Saving Toddler From Deadly Snake

A hero dog was left fighting for his life after being bitten by a venomous tiger snake that was merely a few metres away from his owner’s two-year-old daughter.

Mum Jo Shaw can’t thank Mack, their beloved pet, a boxer, enough after saving the life of her daughter, Carmen, as she played on a trampoline in the backyard of her home in the Melbourne suburb of Tarneit.

The snake was just metres from the toddler before Mack attacked the four feet long snake which then bit him several times and left him in a critical condition after the encounter last Thursday, but Mack was able to kill the poisonous snake.

“Carmen was jumping on the trampoline and the dog was running around in the yard,” Mrs Shaw told Daily Mail Australia.

“I walked away to load the dishwasher and I heard a clap of thunder. My daughter came running and she said, ‘Hi Mum, Mack’s not coming.’ I went and found him frothing at the mouth and paralysed and he wasn’t breathing. My husband and I, we rushed him to the vet,” she addd.

Mrs Shaw said she was shocked to find the huge snake as she searched in her yard to look for the creature that had bitten Mack. She said that the snake was already dead but it was less than two metres from the trampoline where her daughter was playing.

She and her husband, Leigh, immediately rushed Mack to the vet. Mrs Shaw said that Mack was given three doses of anti-venom, adding that ‘he was in a really bad way’ after suffering kidney damage from the snake venom before he was transferred to U-Vet Animal Hospital in Werribee. “The doctors there brought him back,” Mrs Shaw said, adding that the next morning, Mack was ‘chewing on the ventilator to get off the life support machine.’

Mrs Shaw said that Mack is still very weak and is wagging his tail again and it’s going to be a long road to full recovery.

She said that they have called Mack their ‘best mate’. He is now almost four years old and the couple had him since he was a puppy. “We got him after I had a miscarriage and my husband and I lost twins. Mack is very special to us, he means so much to us because we got him at such a bad time in our lives and now he has saved our daughter,” she said.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk and Au.news.yahoo.com