[bijoux1]

I am curious to hear if anyone knows what a snake bite in a dog would look like. I have had quite a scare today, and we are just leaving the vet...But, I'm still just not 100% certain this isn't a bite.

My dogs are NEVER outside unattended. For that matter, they are with me all day long and especially for the last 3-4 days, they have not been unattended at all while inside or outside... I have been home sick, and we all have been right here together.

After I took them outside to use the bathroom in my fenced yard...with me standing right there with them, ...well a little while later one of them started throwing up pretty violently ..I might add. Immediately, I couldn't figure out what was causing it because I know for a fact that he has had absolutely nothing out of the norm!! Well, I was washing his face off, and I felt something under his chin...really at his neck. When I looked it was a small spot bleeding ... I know he didn't fall or do anything to hurt himself because they literally haven't been without me at all the past few days.

It was a fresh wound and small,but I couldn't see 2 spots that would indicate a fang... and it isn't a deep deep cut. But with the fact he was vomiting profusely...we had been outside an hour earlier, and that there have been snakes around here over the past few weeks, I immediately worried it might be a snake bite.

The vet that was there didn't think it was because there weren't two puncture wounds, and it wasn't swollen. He theorized that my dog had scraped it against something and that the vomiting was a coincidence. He prescribed antibiotics.

Does there always have to be two puncture wounds and or swelling? I'm sure I'm over reacting, but I'm just still a little worried bc I really can't imagine how he else he possibly cut open his neck like this?