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A cattle herder dog has been filmed bravely confronting a deadly eastern brown snake in her backyard.
Filmed in the backyard of a home in far north Queensland, the video begins with the sheepdog doing her duty: protecting owner and property.
She grabbed the snake from under a wooden gazebo, then carefully returned to open ground to gain an advantage over its highly venomous adversary.
She then gives the eastern brown, the species responsible for Australia’s highest number of snakebite fatalities, a good shake before biting it and dropping it to the ground.
After putting the snake on the grass, the sheepdog gave the oriental brown a good shake before biting it and dropping it to the ground
But the snake was far from done and leaped ahead of the dog, hoping to get back into the fray.
The dog quickly moved back, and the snake failed to sink its fangs into anything fleshy.
However, the eastern brown’s snappy response angered the man’s best friend even more.
She grabbed and bit the snake again and shook much longer as she spun in circles to give extra power to its attack.
After spitting the hose back onto the grass, the drover dog looked curiously at his foe, wondering if there was still a fight in it.
It did.
The dog made another attempt to grab the snake, but this time he failed to pick it up.
In response, the eastern brown made another desperate lunge at the dog.
This time he got very close, but the dog turned around just in time to save itself from a fatal bite.
Sensing that the tables had turned in the war between dogs and reptiles, the dog went for the kill and grabbed the snake as it briefly turned its head, perhaps from the pain it had already been inflicted.
The dog then violently shook the snake as if its life depended on it – which it probably did.
Eastern brown snakes (pictured) are the species responsible for the highest number of snakebite fatalities in Australia
He dropped the snake to catch his breath and see if it was still alive. When he decided it was, the dog picked up the oriental brown again.
It dragged the snake out at its full length and dropped it on the grass.
But even that wasn’t enough and the sheepdog went to the back of the snake, bit its tail and gave it another shake, just to make sure it wouldn’t cause any more trouble.
And with that, a centuries-long fight ended with a knockout victory for the cattle dog.
The dog’s bravery was acknowledged by commenters on the video site, with one simply saying, “Well done, buddy.”
Another said, “Seeing this makes me miss my father-in-law’s dog. Saved his life many times in the paddock.’
An 11-year-old girl was out walking in Newport, southwest Melbourne, when she came across the eastern brown snake without realizing how deadly the variety can be
It doesn’t always work out that well, though, with one commenter saying, “That’s how I lost my sheepdog.”
Despite the video making it look like the sheepdog had a clean win, some posters were still concerned about his well-being.
“Is he bitten?” one asked, while another said, “Have you taken the dog to the vet just to be sure?”
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to the video’s poster asking for comment.
The video came just a month after a much creepier video emerged of an 11-year-old girl picking up an eastern brown snake while walking around Melbourne.
She is “extremely lucky” to be alive after filming herself unknowingly holding one of the world’s most venomous snakes.
The young girl was out walking in Newport, southwest Melbourne, when she came across the eastern brown.
She filmed the reptile coiling around her fingers, completely unaware of how dangerous the “snake” was.
The child thought the reptile was a harmless garter snake and did not hesitate to pick it up.
Victorian man Stewy the Snake Catcher said it was incredibly lucky that the girl was not harmed after her mistaken identity.
Stewy the Snake Catcher (pictured) said the little girl is incredibly lucky to be alive after mistaking a deadly snake for a harmless snake
“This is an extremely dangerous eastern brown snake,” he continued Facebookwhere he also posted the video.
“The girl in the video is extremely lucky not to have been bitten by the snake, and her parents should probably go buy a lottery ticket.”
A grandparent of the girl only sent the video to the snake catcher because he wanted him to identify the reptile.
“Oriental brown snakes are a nervous snake and are responsible for most snakebite deaths in Australia,” Stewy said.
“This little girl could have died from a bite from this snake.”