Jaffa the Bengal cat's recovery times are slowing but he keeps pulling through after coming off second best with snakes at his western Victorian home.
abc.net.au/news/cat-bitten-snakes-survives-horsham-west/101904522If the phrase "once bitten, twice shy" is true, then Jaffa the Horsham West house cat is six times shyer than most kitties.Jaffa has been bitten by snakes three times in his short life.There are some important lessons in Jaffa's ordeal for pet owners wary of snakes being more active during warmer weather.
A few injections from a Warracknabeal vet, who diagnosed the problem as a snake bite, got him back on his feet again.Jaffa the Bengal cat has pulled through after multiple snake bites. "I took him straight over [to the vet] and he was a bit worse, and it took him maybe a week to come good," Ms Hughes said."He had been out in our pergola having his cat run, and he came in and started to vomit, and then he had really bad diarrhoea, he was panting and drooling," she said.
"We didn't think it was a snake bite, and neither did the vet initially, but then the paralysis started to really set in very quickly.Jaffa had stopped breathing before the vet administered a full vial of anti-venom in the hope it would save him.When she left, he was quite literally hanging on for life, and she was told to "keep everything crossed"."He started to come good and by the next morning he was screaming to be fed.
Beaufort snake catcher Gianni Hodgson makes a living trying to prevent the ordeals like Jaffa and Ms Hughes endured.
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