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Stomp!
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the back pasture of the refuge I operate, Lurch, my 11-month-old African Watusi
calf, turned sideways and blocked my path. I couldn't understand it. Was he
being stubborn? I grasped his horns and pushed by him. As I was about to take a
step, he tossed his head, throwing me off balance. A copperhead snake lay coiled
right where my foot would have landed. As my dogs rushed over to check it out,
the snake attacked and bit one of them. Lurch stomped on the snake until it was
dead. Copperhead venom isn't usually fatal to adults, but with me it could have
been. I'm very sensitive to insect bites and had just been hospitalized for a
lung condition. Lurch was only doing what he thought best. Today he's a
full-grown steer, and just as full of himself!
-- Submitted by Janice Wolf, Gassville, Arkansas
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