The crazyest thing I ever seen me and my brotherinlaw was tree'd one night right on the edge of east caddo creek and had jumped the coon out and it landed in the creek all the dog's jumped in tryin to catch the coon and they did and got it killed on the other side of the creek. But he had a little english gyp there that had not been hunted a whole lot and just when the fight was ending she decided to swim the creek for a taste of the coon, she got half way across and I thought that she had figured out that the creek was to wide and turned to come back to our side but when she did she stood on her tail like a cork and went to fightin the water like she was goin down. We stood there watchin to see what was gonna happen and I told him I think that gyp is gonna go under, so he started taken the stuff out of his pockets to go get her and I turned my light on the high side and with the light brighter I could see about 5 foot of a snake that was about 3 to 4 inches bigger around than my forearm that was wrapped around the little dogs middle and was tryin to pull the pup under, I still to this day don't know what kind of snake it was and don't want to see another like it, but then the second part of the story was pretty weird to, as we were lookin at the snake, his old female was standing lookin at the pup in the middle of that creek and she jumped in the creek swam strait to the pup and shoved her in the back with her two front feet and turned and swam away and I guess the comotion with both dogs the snake let go and I stood there and watched the snake swim away and could not beleave what I was lookin at the pup made it back to the bank and we called the other dogs across and stood there for a long time talkin about if that old bitch dog new that that pup was in trouble or if it was a quincky dink or what went on, I prolly would not have beleaved it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eye's.
Thats wierd. Could have been someones exotic pet snake they turned loose after it got too big, like a python or some other constrictor snake. I watched a TV show one time about big constrictors that had been turned loose in the everglades. If it happends in florida it could happen any where.
Waylon
