Rattle snakes obviously aren't a problem where we are at in East Texas - my wife's clinic sees probably 5-6 snake bites per day this time of year - with most of those being copper heads and the others being water moccasins. I'd have to ask her, but very rarely do they lose a dog - just like the majority of people aren't going to die from those types of snake bites either. May hurt like hell, may be an ugly healing wound, but most times they get through it just fine with pain meds and antibiotics. Rattlesnake the prognosis with no vaccine is much different and obviously worse....and antivenom is very expensive.

Bull snake