Old Man Says Dogs Find Herbs After Being Bitten by Snakes, How Do They Distinguish Different Venom Types?

Turns out, some frequently mountain-running hunting dogs actually know how to distinguish which herbs can be used to treat snake venom.

True story, there was a hunter in the village who often took his gun, dog and others to the mountains to hunt wild boars, sambar deer, pig-shells and other animals. In 2001, while chasing a sika deer, he accidentally stepped on a poisonous snake and was bitten by the snake.

The snake was highly venomous, an Indian cobra. As people were simply treating his wound and preparing to carry him down the mountain to find a doctor, two dogs separately brought two kinds of herbs and kept bothering him, and constantly barking.

Initially, everyone only vaguely guessed that the two dogs brought the same herbs were snake antidote. It was still hesitant to use the herbs, because the person bitten by the snake, estimated from the mountains, returned to the village to find a snake doctor to get herbs, which was too late.

He just did a dead horse treatment, took a gamble, used the dogs brought herbs. He smashed the herbs with stones and applied them to the wound. After a while, the pain from the wound decreased a lot.

However, the dogs were still barking there, it took a long time to know that these herbs were for eating.

Later, none of them continued to hunt sika deer, but instead rotated to carry the injured person back to the village to find a snake doctor to get herbs.

The snake doctor was very puzzled, he was bitten by an Indian cobra for several hours, but was still so energetic. The group said, 'Is this snake antidote?'

The snake doctor directly denied it, then he went out to find some snake antidote for the injured person, finally saved his life.

As for the two herbs, whether they are snake antidote, everyone is not sure. Although the snake doctor denied it, who knows if he lied.

In fact, dogs in rural areas have a habit of eating grass. People will often see them occasionally, but we often don't know the purpose of dogs eating grass.

Sometimes, when dogs eat the wrong thing or eat something poisonous, they will run out to eat grass and vomit, then go to eat grass and lie on the grass for a long time before they seem to be okay.

Everyone should notice that rural dogs or hunting dogs, we rarely see them get sick, while urban pets are different.

According to common sense, rural dogs eat everywhere, often eat dead chickens and fish, the hygiene is not good, it should be more prone to illness and poisoning than urban dogs. But in fact, rural dogs are rarely sick.

I think dogs themselves go to the wild to eat grass to save their lives.

And some dogs will have a near miss, haven't found the antidote before dying from poisoning.

So why do dogs know how to eat herbs to detoxify themselves or recognize snake antidote herbs?

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