I was born, raised and live in the hills of Southern California. The rattlesnake vaccine doesn’t work and even though we have canyons and walking trails filled with rattlesnakes none of the local vets have anti-venom.
There are only two I know of on the Westside. Good luck with the traffic. I cringe when I read about Benadryl (it doesn’t even work on my dog’s allergies) and other home remedies. Do you know anything about snakebites?
This is about as serious as it gets. You dog will die if it gets bitten. Period. I only know know of two who were rushed to anti-venom and survived and it costs a fortune. Vets in the Southwest are expensive.
I’m on Next Door which is a National but local website and we weekly have reports of deaths of idiots who walk the trails with unleashed dogs and while we’re at it we are losing several pets a week to coyotes.