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Cohabbing is cruelty...
I'm still shaking as I write this. Yesterday morning I thawed some mice to feed 2 of the rosy boas (Sadie and Bernice), 4 of the "big snakes" (Sniper, Snafu, Calvin and Kate), and my 3 male 07s (Lugosi, Voldermort and Festivus). They all ate, and I went to work.
When I got home I thawed 5 more hoppers for rosys Annie, Edison, Ed. Fred and Buddy. Ed and Buddy decided to refuse, so I gave the hoppers to BRenda and Snafu, The hoppers were small and next week is their last meal til bru, so I didn't feel like I was stuffing them.
This morning when I walked into the snakeroom, I was greeted by "that smell". The smell of a dead animal. I didn't panic...I was thinking regurge (which is bad, but not an immediate emergency). I had my coffee and decided to check all the cages to track down where the smell was coming from. I got to Festivus and immediately saw the putrid mouse laying there. Then I got a look at my boy. His mouth was crooked, like when they realign their jaws, and his head was to the side. His whole throat was swollen and I saw metal DOWN HIS THROAT. It appeared to be Y shaped and the points were stretching and distorting the skin of his throat, with the points piercing through to the outside. It was AWFUL. I ran to the phone and called my vet and they had me bring him right down.
I had to leave him there so I went home and checked the other snakes I had fed yesterday. All seemed just fine and Lugosi gave me a nice tail rattle for disturbing him. I called my supplier, a guy I had been dealing with for 13 years. He is going to alert his suppliers, because he gets the mice frozen from a few places.
I use newspaper bedding and clean his cage all the time. Somehow, the metal wire was inside the mouse! My boy had surgery, the vet had to make 3 incisions and the metal had to be cut into pieces to get it out of him. I just picked him up. His whole head and neck are swollen, and he is carrying the front half of himself off the ground, it must hurt so bad! He is on endroflaxin twice a day, and the syringe has to be put behind the incisions, so the antibiotic doesn't leak out. The wire was old and really rusty and I am really afraid of infection.
He has a followup appt on Friday....I'm really scared I might lose him.
Tonight is feeding night for the majority of the corns.....I am running a powerful magnet over the mice and examining them closely before feeding.
Festivus is a sulphur that I got from Rob and Louise last February. I don't know what I'll do if I lose him....
When I got home I thawed 5 more hoppers for rosys Annie, Edison, Ed. Fred and Buddy. Ed and Buddy decided to refuse, so I gave the hoppers to BRenda and Snafu, The hoppers were small and next week is their last meal til bru, so I didn't feel like I was stuffing them.
This morning when I walked into the snakeroom, I was greeted by "that smell". The smell of a dead animal. I didn't panic...I was thinking regurge (which is bad, but not an immediate emergency). I had my coffee and decided to check all the cages to track down where the smell was coming from. I got to Festivus and immediately saw the putrid mouse laying there. Then I got a look at my boy. His mouth was crooked, like when they realign their jaws, and his head was to the side. His whole throat was swollen and I saw metal DOWN HIS THROAT. It appeared to be Y shaped and the points were stretching and distorting the skin of his throat, with the points piercing through to the outside. It was AWFUL. I ran to the phone and called my vet and they had me bring him right down.
I had to leave him there so I went home and checked the other snakes I had fed yesterday. All seemed just fine and Lugosi gave me a nice tail rattle for disturbing him. I called my supplier, a guy I had been dealing with for 13 years. He is going to alert his suppliers, because he gets the mice frozen from a few places.
I use newspaper bedding and clean his cage all the time. Somehow, the metal wire was inside the mouse! My boy had surgery, the vet had to make 3 incisions and the metal had to be cut into pieces to get it out of him. I just picked him up. His whole head and neck are swollen, and he is carrying the front half of himself off the ground, it must hurt so bad! He is on endroflaxin twice a day, and the syringe has to be put behind the incisions, so the antibiotic doesn't leak out. The wire was old and really rusty and I am really afraid of infection.
He has a followup appt on Friday....I'm really scared I might lose him.
Tonight is feeding night for the majority of the corns.....I am running a powerful magnet over the mice and examining them closely before feeding.
Festivus is a sulphur that I got from Rob and Louise last February. I don't know what I'll do if I lose him....
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