Indeed! I thought the coincidence of a family of pets merited pausing the writing long enough to reply. I often call the dogs 'wilderness dogs' and what I meant by 'domestic' is just that they do not have much experience being in or around the hustle and bustle of either the suburbs, a city, town etcetera.
Yeah, dogs can handle snake bites rather well as long as they are not on the 'trunk' of their body and the dog is not old. She got bit twice in the face. As a side note, she became super skilled at finding/noticing snakes so go figure.
All the dogs are trained on hunting rodents and in fact it is the only thing they are allowed to hunt. Although they are mostly retired now they spent much of their lives driving off large predators like bears, big cats (like bobcats) and some rather large coyote packs. They never 'close' with those kinds of animals (or the more problematic two-legged critters) but they do a fantastic job of driving them off a property... or just keeping them away altogether.
What kind of snake was it that got that cat? The dog had gotten bit by a copperhead on the two occasions she was bit.