AFTER a 60-year-old woman was bitten by Britain’s only native poisonous snake, an adder, at Saddell while walking her dogs, she is warning others to be careful when walking in the woods.
Gloria Cunningham was out walking her dogs in Saddell last Tuesday morning and was heading down towards Saddell Castle when she thinks she was bitten but didn’t realise.
She began to feel ill a few days after her walk and put it down to food poisoning she had perhaps got from a barbeque.
But when she began to feel worse she called in the doctor who told her she had been bitten by a snake.
Gloria began to get worried when she started to hallucinate, but was shocked to find out she had been bitten by a snake.
The only evidence she had was that she was feeling ill plus two marks and redness where she had been bitten on the bottom of the leg.
She said:’ I was walking in the woods with my two dogs last Tuesday.
‘My leg was all red with two prong marks on it but I only noticed this when the doctor pointed it out and told me I had been bitten by a snake.
‘I want to just warn folk of the snakes that may be lurking about, especially to visitors.’
