Die agtjarige Tekkie, \u2019n Jack Russel is uiters gelukkig om te leef nadat hy met \u2019n dodelike boomslang gestoei het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die slang het egter die kortste spit afgebyt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tekkie en sy eienaars, Adriaan en Annemarie Marais van Grottobaai, het vroeg verlede Maandagoggend (29 Januarie) na die Bergzicht-dierehospitaal in Malmesbury gejaag in die hoop dat hulle Tekkie sal kan red nadat hy deur \u2019n boomslang gepik is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Marais se nagmerrie het begin toe hulle laat Sondagmiddag (28 Januarie) \u2019n dooie slang by hul honde Tekkie en Asjas se kosbakke gewaar. \u201cEk het my byna binne \u2019n ander bloedgroep geskrik toe ek die deur na hul kosbakke oopmaak en die slang sien,\u201d dink Annemarie vandag terug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tekkie bring gedurig sy vangste en l\u00ea dit by sy kosbak neer vir sy ounooi om te sien, vertel Annemarie. Di\u00e9 keer was dit egter \u2019n dodelike, maar gelukkig dooie, slang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die Marais het Tekkie aanvanklik geen simptome getoon nie. Dr. Duandri Botha, \u2019n veearts by die Bergzicht-dierehospitaal, verduidelik die slagoffers van \u2019n boomslangbyt kan eers n\u00e1 25 uur simptome begin wys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Annemarie het die volgende oggend besef iets is fout toe sy bloed by Tekkie se neus gewaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adriaan, wat reeds op pad werk toe was, het omgedraai om Tekkie saam met haar na die naaste moontlike veearts te neem. \u201cOns laai toe vir Tekkie en die slang in, wat ons gelukkig nie weggegooi het nie.\u201d \u2019n Slangvanger het hom intussen as \u2019n boomslang identifiseer. Die Marais-egpaar het eers die Yzerfontein-veeartsenykliniek se praktyk gebel, maar geen antwoord gekry nie omdat dit nog vroeg was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hul tweede oproep was na die Darling-dierehospitaal, waar die personeel met hul aankoms reggestaan het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Geen veearts was ongelukkig daardie tyd van die oggend aan diens nie. Die praktyk se ontvangsdame het hulle toe na die Bergzicht-dierehospitaal verwys, waaroor hulle vandag baie dankbaar is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het die Bergzicht-dierehospitaal gebel en ges\u00ea ons is op pad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Botha voeg by dat hulle toe reeds begin soek het na teengif, terwyl dr. Andries Groenewald, ook \u2019n veearts by Bergzicht-dierehospitaal, intussen op RSG gehoor het geen boomslangteengif is in die Wes-Kaap beskikbaar nie. Nog \u2019n hond, wat in Somerset-Wes deur \u2019n boomslang gebyt is, het teengif van so ver as 1 000 km weg uit Noordwes ontvang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Botha het onder meer navraag op \u2019n veeartsenygroep gedoen, wat bevestig het dat die naaste teengif in Hartebeespoortdam is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie span van Bergzicht-dierehospitaal het met ons aankoms reggestaan,\u201d vertel Adriaan dankbaar. \u201cAlmal by die praktyk \u2013 van ontvangs tot by die agterdeur \u2013 het ingespring om te help. Dit was fantastiese diens. Hulle het ons so kalm gemaak.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tekkie het met sy aankoms Noodbehandeling gekry. By nadere ondersoek is vasgestel hy is op die bo- en onderlip gebyt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Groenewald het hy en sy span Tekkie op \u2019n drup gesit en teenstol-medikasie begin gee, omdat \u2019n boomslangbyt hemotoksies van aard is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johan Marais, uitvoerende hoof vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Slangbyt-instituut, verduidelik \u2019n boomslangbyt het \u2019n uitwerking op die liggaam se vermo\u00eb om bloed te laat stol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Kaapse Kobra wat ook in die Swartland voorkom, se gif is neurotoksies van aard, wat die senustelsel raak en gewoonlik asemhalingsprobleme veroorsaak, verduidelik Marais. \u2019n Pofadder, ook een van die gevaarlike slange wat in die omgewing voorkom, se gif is sitotoksies en tas onder meer die weefsel aan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marais het beaam dat \u2019n boomslangbyt wel \u2019n baie rare verskynsel is en dat teengif weens die kostes daarvan nie altyd beskikbaar is nie. \u201cDie boomslang het sy eie monovalente teengifbehandeling, terwyl pasi\u00ebnte wat deur \u2019n Kaapse kobra, mambas of pofadders gepik is, polivalente behandeling ontvang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTeengif is die korrekte en enigste behandeling vir erge slangbytvergiftiging,\u201d voeg hy by. \u201cDie behandeling kan slegs in hospitale of by veeartspraktyke gedoen word en \u2019n span dokters is vir die behandeling nodig,\u201d voeg Marais by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was ook so in Tekkie se geval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Marais-egpaar, wat na \u2019n koffiewinkel gegaan het terwyl die veeartse Tekkie behandel, het \u2019n oproep ontvang dat die teenstol-medikasie nie werk nie en dat teengif wel nodig is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Marais-egpaar het veeartse van die suidelike voorstede van Kaapstad tot so ver as Pretoria gebel met die hoop om die regte teengif te kry. \u201cOns was bereid om die teengif per lugvervoer tot hier te kry,\u201d vertel Adriaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Annemarie was tyd egter \u2019n faktor omdat Tekkie reeds die vorige dag gebyt is. Iets het op daardie tydstip vir haar ges\u00ea om die nommer te bel waar hulle vroe\u00ebr geen antwoord gekry het nie. Die Yzerfontein-dierekliniek het toe wel die regte teengif gehad. Die nodige re\u00eblings is inderhaas tussen die betrokke veeartse getref en die Marais-egpaar het weer in die motor op die pad na Yzerfontein gespring om die teengif te haan haal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat Dr. Maryke Bartmann \u2019n bloedoortapping gedoen en die nodige medikasie vir Tekkie gegee het om seker te maak dat daar geen negatiewe allergiese reaksie is nie, is die teengif stadig toegedien. \u201cDaarna het die dokters vir ons ges\u00ea dat gebed al is wat nou gaan help. En so baie mense het vir die hondjie gebid,\u201d voeg sy by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie veearts het ons die volgende oggend gebel en laat weet dit goed gaan met Tekkie. Hy hardloop rond en merk elke hoek en draai. Ons was baie verlig. Daar was gewis trane van blydskap,\u201d vertel Annemarie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar was \u2019n paar emosionele oomblikke, voeg Adriaan by. \u201cOns het die Here se hand gevoel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n wonderwerk,\u201d was Botha se reaksie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bartmann het ges\u00ea hulle almal was so bly oor Tekkie se spoedige herstel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adriaan het die span by Bergzicht-dierehospitaal geloof vir hul uitstekende diens en behandeling van Tekkie. \u201cTekkie is baie bly om by die huis te wees en maak nou permanent aanspraak op al die aandag wat hy by julle gekry het,\u201d skryf hy op sosiale media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Adriaan is hulle ewe dankbaar teenoor hul plaaslike gemeenskap en di\u00e9 van Malmesbury se ondersteuning en gebede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Marais\u2019 is wel nie oortuig dat Tekkie sy les geleer het nie. \u201cNou weet hy hoe om dit te doen,\u201d lag Annemarie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy opvolgbesoek het bevestig dat Tekkie volkome herstel het.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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