Hate to say it, but they did the right thing. People who do are not able to identify snakes should not handle them -thats a very common sense rule.
Even a great dog is not worth dying for. For all they knew, that could have been a venomous snake, in which case they would have run a high rish of getting bit if they intervened. Furthermore, dogs generally have a far higher tolerance to snake venom anyways. Yes, it was only a hognose, but they didnt know that, remember?
The only safe intervening would have been verbal. If any of you have ever tried to get a dog off of a wild animal, you would understand that is not always easy.
Sometimes us "snake guys" forget what its like to really not be able to distinguish between snake species.
Now if they said they had made their dog attack it, that would be different, but they did not say that. They said nothing to indicate that they purposely harmed the snake.
So, in my opinion, you only suck if you made the dog attack the snake

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