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Snake-fighting Tess is doing well

November 9, 2007  (Bob)

Good news: Tess, the heroic Sheltie bitten by a six-foot Eastern Brown Snake on the Gold Coast south of Brisbane last week, is doing well. She is expected to make full recovery after being bitten in the ear as she defended her owner from the highly poisonous, aggressive snake.

As I reported earlier (Kids, Kelpies, snakes, Nov. 1, below), Tess went into a coma and was given a 50-50 chance of living, according to a story on “The Age” newspaper’s web site.

Strangely, my daily searches of “The Age” for news of Tess yielded nothing and no one there responded to my email queries, either. Today I found a follow-up story on the web site of Agence France-Presse (AFP).

AFP had contacted Fay Palethorpe of Ipswich about her brave dog, and quoted her as saying that Tess will be home Saturday and “getting a few extra hugs and kisses.”

No word on whether Ms. Palethorpe will ever go out into her garden again. — Bob

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