{"id":5649,"date":"2016-06-02T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:22:05","slug":"snake-bites-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/snake-bites-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"A Daycare Playground Is Supposed To Be A Fun And Safe Place. But What Bit This Little Girl Is Simply Terrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little girl is recovering after being bitten by a snake<\/a> in the playground of her daycare center. Two-year-old Kiley\u00a0Cook was playing outside\u00a0Rainbow’s Promise Daycare in Granbury, Texas, when she was attacked by a copperhead snake, the common name for the highly venomous agkistrodon contortrix. Following the attack, Kiley\u00a0was rushed to Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth and sedated.<\/p>\n

The bite caused Kiley’s finger, hand and arm to swell, and her skin turned dark.\u00a0“Her finger turned black, her whole hand began to balloon out,” Michael Cook, Kiley’s father, said. “It was a scary moment. My heart stopped,” added her\u00a0mom, Nataly Horn.\u00a0Horn was working with another class at the daycare center when the attack<\/a> took place.<\/p>\n

Tama Lofland, the owner of the daycare, said that they’ve never had a snake attack in the 18 years that the center has\u00a0been in business. But she has reassured parents that, after consulting snake experts, staff\u00a0will now be taking safety<\/a> measures to keep snakes off the property, including erecting\u00a0mesh fencing.<\/p>\n