PSYCOSNAKEMOM
~~~~~~~:~ Newbies Rule?
I need to whine, so I will do it in list form so that you don't have to listen to me ramble. PLUS the information from the vet I feel is important (if true) for everyone to know, so here it goes.
1. My timing stinks. I didn't plan well for either egg laying or egg hatching. My son is an archer and I need to travel a lot with him to tournaments. Basically I was gone during egg laying and egg hatching, Go figure. I have a snake sitter and she is good but she just didn't pick up on a few things, so I lost a few eggs, and I lost a few babies.
2. Even before that I did a snake presentation at school but had to get to my karate class, I asked a friend to just take the snakes in their containers and leave them in the living room, I would be back in an hour to put them away, temps and air where all ok. When he put them on the floor he loosened one of the lids. My three year old Sauron slid out, that was a month ago
. I have found poop twice but my house is always under construction, she could be long gone. Plus I collect everything My house is full of JUNK, Hot Wheels, Barbies Star Trek (goddess save me) Every day I look with no luck.
3. BUT it goes back because she was egg bound, a trip to the vet $130.00, she finally laid all the eggs (can one LAID eggs???) She is a GOOD eater even egg bound she was eating, big and strong like bull. LOST like my mind! Her babies are all born and also BIG and STRONG!!!
4. AND before I left for the last trip to Georgia, My Barbie Butter was not doing well in the eating department, she hadn't eaten before she laid eggs etc, you know the normal stuff but then she double clutched even though I didn't breed her the second time (slugs) so she wasn't eating again, she has always been my fussy girl, she, now here is the key word "was".three years old, picky eater, smaller size, a little jumpy ...anyhow. I was planning on a vet visit when I got back if she didn't eat by then, when I came home she was dead. The snake sitter didn't say anything I never asked, she would have only felt bad, and I'm not sure she could have done anything. Iam mad at myself and sad cuz I miss her, She was my little butterball princess. When I left her she was ok drinking and moving but any how. All her eggs didn't make it, Not sure why...because I was, again, gone when she laid them.
5. So I took her roommate Beanie my silver to the vet, for a "just in case", Because she looks fine and is eating and everything, (another $130.00) They did fine pinworms. Now here is the important stuff. The vet said this is normal to have some level of pinworms, it's just that because they are confined and pooping in a small area the pinworms tend to get more concentrated in the animal. I panic, of course, because I am so finatically about cleaning and bleaching and I spend so much time doing this every night. He said that if I introduce a new animal to the AREA, even another reptile like an anole, that that could get things going. Well, things are always coming and going at my house and ther was that little motley that I bought on a whim at the White Plains show that dies a few weeks later (I wasn't too attached and mostly said "Now have you learned your lesson???" NOW everyone is being treated for pinworm which by the way this vet recommends testing yearly if you don't introduce new animals and testing more often if you do. Even new babies in THIS house are going to be treated before they leave, though vet says that it's not necessary unless I see problems. ( I say to myself "PROBLEMS") I asked if this is why Barbie died. He says no, unless in combination with a lot of stress. SO, now Iam feeling really bad, because she was stressed, eggs twice, not eating and no vet care. AND I'm in Georgia watching the kiddo shoot arrows for six days!
6. Anyhow, babies are doing good now, but I am wondering if the snake sitter hasn't messed up the tops which label who is who, Because I got some strange matches. SO I am now feeling that I can't sell as what they are cuz I DON'T KNOW who is who, I can only sell "as is", or what you see may not be what you get! Perhaps when she was changing water she put the wrong top on the wrong bottom (label label label)
7. LAST night or this moring rather, I went to check a batch. THE WHOLE batch was gone. They had slipped out under the lid of the plastic shoe box, then OUT of the tupperware incubator, which I leave open a crack for air and then out of MY LIFE......there were only six of them and they had just eaten their third meal and now they are gone more crying....
SO, thanks for listening, I guess I just saved $100. on therapy by venting here. I would be interested in knowing anyone elses thoughts on the pinworm stuff. I am NOT willing to send these babies out without treating them but I am also not crazy about giving them drugs!
Thanks friends Sam ~~~~~~~~~~:~
1. My timing stinks. I didn't plan well for either egg laying or egg hatching. My son is an archer and I need to travel a lot with him to tournaments. Basically I was gone during egg laying and egg hatching, Go figure. I have a snake sitter and she is good but she just didn't pick up on a few things, so I lost a few eggs, and I lost a few babies.
2. Even before that I did a snake presentation at school but had to get to my karate class, I asked a friend to just take the snakes in their containers and leave them in the living room, I would be back in an hour to put them away, temps and air where all ok. When he put them on the floor he loosened one of the lids. My three year old Sauron slid out, that was a month ago
. I have found poop twice but my house is always under construction, she could be long gone. Plus I collect everything My house is full of JUNK, Hot Wheels, Barbies Star Trek (goddess save me) Every day I look with no luck.3. BUT it goes back because she was egg bound, a trip to the vet $130.00, she finally laid all the eggs (can one LAID eggs???) She is a GOOD eater even egg bound she was eating, big and strong like bull. LOST like my mind! Her babies are all born and also BIG and STRONG!!!
4. AND before I left for the last trip to Georgia, My Barbie Butter was not doing well in the eating department, she hadn't eaten before she laid eggs etc, you know the normal stuff but then she double clutched even though I didn't breed her the second time (slugs) so she wasn't eating again, she has always been my fussy girl, she, now here is the key word "was".three years old, picky eater, smaller size, a little jumpy ...anyhow. I was planning on a vet visit when I got back if she didn't eat by then, when I came home she was dead. The snake sitter didn't say anything I never asked, she would have only felt bad, and I'm not sure she could have done anything. Iam mad at myself and sad cuz I miss her, She was my little butterball princess. When I left her she was ok drinking and moving but any how. All her eggs didn't make it, Not sure why...because I was, again, gone when she laid them.
5. So I took her roommate Beanie my silver to the vet, for a "just in case", Because she looks fine and is eating and everything, (another $130.00) They did fine pinworms. Now here is the important stuff. The vet said this is normal to have some level of pinworms, it's just that because they are confined and pooping in a small area the pinworms tend to get more concentrated in the animal. I panic, of course, because I am so finatically about cleaning and bleaching and I spend so much time doing this every night. He said that if I introduce a new animal to the AREA, even another reptile like an anole, that that could get things going. Well, things are always coming and going at my house and ther was that little motley that I bought on a whim at the White Plains show that dies a few weeks later (I wasn't too attached and mostly said "Now have you learned your lesson???" NOW everyone is being treated for pinworm which by the way this vet recommends testing yearly if you don't introduce new animals and testing more often if you do. Even new babies in THIS house are going to be treated before they leave, though vet says that it's not necessary unless I see problems. ( I say to myself "PROBLEMS") I asked if this is why Barbie died. He says no, unless in combination with a lot of stress. SO, now Iam feeling really bad, because she was stressed, eggs twice, not eating and no vet care. AND I'm in Georgia watching the kiddo shoot arrows for six days!
6. Anyhow, babies are doing good now, but I am wondering if the snake sitter hasn't messed up the tops which label who is who, Because I got some strange matches. SO I am now feeling that I can't sell as what they are cuz I DON'T KNOW who is who, I can only sell "as is", or what you see may not be what you get! Perhaps when she was changing water she put the wrong top on the wrong bottom (label label label)
7. LAST night or this moring rather, I went to check a batch. THE WHOLE batch was gone. They had slipped out under the lid of the plastic shoe box, then OUT of the tupperware incubator, which I leave open a crack for air and then out of MY LIFE......there were only six of them and they had just eaten their third meal and now they are gone
more crying....SO, thanks for listening, I guess I just saved $100. on therapy by venting here. I would be interested in knowing anyone elses thoughts on the pinworm stuff. I am NOT willing to send these babies out without treating them but I am also not crazy about giving them drugs!
Thanks friends Sam ~~~~~~~~~~:~
