Copperheads Are No Match For Julie

My dog is named Julie. She is part Siberian Husky and part St. Bernard. She is a very sweet dog, very smart and extremely protective. I live in Missouri, and not far from where we live is a place called Dillard Mill. It is a very nice place to take a dog for a walk. She likes to go down to the stream for a drink whenever we go there. Well, this one day I took her there, and we were walking down to the stream. She picked up a stick to carry as she always does. We were walking along, when all of a sudden she dropped the stick and the fur on her back stood straight up in the air. She stopped there and then and wouldn’t go any further. I looked around to see what had upset her so, but I didn’t see anything. So, I prodded her along to walk, but she wouldn’t move. The next thing I know, she walked right in front of me and stopped. She wouldn’t move, nor would she let me move. When I tried to move she barked at me, which is not like her. She then looked down on the ground and started barking ferociously. I looked down and coming out of the grass was a copper head snake. She continued to bark but stayed a little distance away from the snake, and would not move from in front of me. Finally the snake went back into the grass. Clearly I would have been bitten if not for Julie. I was not looking down at the ground, but around at everything else. She certainly is a very precious girl, and I love her dearly. It was love at first sight when I got her at 6 weeks old. She clambored over her brothers and sisters to get to me in the box. I knew right then and there that she had picked me, and I was totally in love. She has me wrapped right around her pretty tail. Sherilyn F