How a miniature Daschund took on a brown snake and won

Donna Page
Updated October 28 2017 - 4:05pm, first published 9:27am
BRAVE: Priya Hartigan, 11, with her dog Slinky. The five-kilogram dachshund fought a one-metre eastern brown snake to the death in the family's backyard this week. Picture: Simone De Peak
BRAVE: Priya Hartigan, 11, with her dog Slinky. The five-kilogram dachshund fought a one-metre eastern brown snake to the death in the family's backyard this week. Picture: Simone De Peak

SHE might be small in stature, but this dog is now known as Slinky the brown snake slayer.

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Donna Page

Donna Page

Investigative journalist at the Newcastle Herald

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