Clovis
Pirate
Well, most of you don't really know me. I don't post on here very often, and I'm still working on getting up a photo album of all my scalies up.... but today the list got one shorter.
We've had our creamsicle, Darshannon, for over a year now. She was sold to us by a pet store that couldn't get her to eat, and because any time they get something new or unusual in they call us. we have some pretty good relationships with the reptile shops, as well as the Petsmarts and Petcos in our area.
They called us in for this one, she never went on the shelves. Aztec Creamsicle (labeled as a "fancy corn snake") and was sold to us at a reduced price, as she wouldn't eat. We brought her home with us and for the last year she has been on and off of a regurge diet. Never, in the year we kept her, did she eat for a solid 6 weeks without regurging. Recently we took her up to our vet to make sure she wasn't impacted, and she found that she was simply very dehydrated (she refused to drink) and malnourished from constantly being ill. We put her back on a very slow regurge diet with warm water soaks twice daily, Probiotics with each meal, and an occasional multivitamin or calcium supplement as well.
She FINALLY seemed to be recovering. She was active, her organs not distended, passing both urine and fecal matter regularly... until yesterday, when she regurged her hind half of a pinky (in week 7 of regurge diet. moved up to rear half at week 6) along with everything else in her gut, some of which was obviously digested. that night she seemed fine.
Today, she literally died in the hands of my wife and we sent her off with a funeral pyre. It's a sad story, but most of my friends don't get how upset I am when I lose one of my scalies, considering how big my collection is. I wanted to share the story with some people who might understand better.
Thank you for taking the time to read my rambling. Happy Herping.
We've had our creamsicle, Darshannon, for over a year now. She was sold to us by a pet store that couldn't get her to eat, and because any time they get something new or unusual in they call us. we have some pretty good relationships with the reptile shops, as well as the Petsmarts and Petcos in our area.
They called us in for this one, she never went on the shelves. Aztec Creamsicle (labeled as a "fancy corn snake") and was sold to us at a reduced price, as she wouldn't eat. We brought her home with us and for the last year she has been on and off of a regurge diet. Never, in the year we kept her, did she eat for a solid 6 weeks without regurging. Recently we took her up to our vet to make sure she wasn't impacted, and she found that she was simply very dehydrated (she refused to drink) and malnourished from constantly being ill. We put her back on a very slow regurge diet with warm water soaks twice daily, Probiotics with each meal, and an occasional multivitamin or calcium supplement as well.
She FINALLY seemed to be recovering. She was active, her organs not distended, passing both urine and fecal matter regularly... until yesterday, when she regurged her hind half of a pinky (in week 7 of regurge diet. moved up to rear half at week 6) along with everything else in her gut, some of which was obviously digested. that night she seemed fine.
Today, she literally died in the hands of my wife and we sent her off with a funeral pyre. It's a sad story, but most of my friends don't get how upset I am when I lose one of my scalies, considering how big my collection is. I wanted to share the story with some people who might understand better.
Thank you for taking the time to read my rambling. Happy Herping.
