India, July 5 -- Dogs get bitten by snakes because they are predators and attracted to crawling animals like snakes, mongooses and monitor lizards. On sighting a serpent, guileless and untrained pet dogs launch an attack with gusto but the battle is one loaded in favour of snakes.

During the night of June 28, 2026, a female labrador, Jimmy, of Dr Sumit Thakur took on a spectacled cobra that wandered into his farmhouse in Nissing (Karnal) to predate on umpteen frogs. Within 12 seconds, captured dramatically on CCTV, the cobra bit Jimmy on the right side of the face and the right hind leg. Jimmy dropped dead within eight minutes, suspected to have suffered a heart attack.

There were little children in the farmhouse and Jimmy's death avert...