A 14-year-old Jack Russell terrier killed a puff adder while it hang on its owner's toe, the victim who is a farmer from the Jakkalsdal district in the Northern Cape told Sapa on Saturday.
Joy Weston, 68, from the farm DeVilliershoop, was walking through her yard to great Eskom workers who had arrived just after 4pm on Thursday when she accidentally stepped on the deadly snake.
"I couldn't get the snake to release it's bite," she said, "Monty grabbed and killed it."
Weston was wearing slip on sandals. One of the snake's fangs sunk into her toe and the other in her shoe. The puff adder was a baby, she said, of about 40cm.
Her husband, Dr Neville Weston, a urologist from kimberley, had just arrived home and immediately rushed his wife 48kms back to the town where she was administered anti-venom.
She was discharged on Saturday and said she felt much better but was still shocked. Her toe was saved.
The snake has been preserved in formalin to show the Weston's seven grandchildren. Meanwhile, Monty was being hailed as a local hero.
- Times Live
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