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Need Help!!!

madamwlf

madamwlf

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I just took in another charity case ball python from a pet store. Completely free snake. It has burns on the sides from where the pet store had the heat strip inside the cage. What can I put on the burns to help them heal?? Plus, I think this was a wild caught snake. My husband took a few ticks off of him and it's rather snappy. I've never had a BP that is snappy. Any advice would be great!!

Jeannie
 
Toss a paper towel over him when you open his tub. Throws off his aim.
Treat the burns with neosporin. Vet visit if burns are bad~ otherwise wash with bactine and use neosporin every other day until after a couple good sheds. Watch that humidity is not too high with the burns and neosporin~ use no substrate or newpaper~ not wood shavings.
Pick off the ticks with tweezers~ try to get all of the tick. Put neosporin over the spots you pulled a tick. Do this once a week until you don't see any more ticks for at least 3 weeks. (Run your hand the length of the snake~ sometimes you can feel the bumps were ticks are hiding under scales too.)

Once the burns are healed~ treat with reptile relief or provent-a-mite. Flagyl and panacur is *almost* always needed for WC BPs.

Good luck!
 
Silvadene is said to be the best antibiotic for reptile burns. They precribe it humans, but I don't think it's availible OTC. Your vet would prescribe it, though. Good luck with him. Through the local Nature Center, we've had a ton of "bitey" rescue balls. Shame they insist on capturing them wild anymore. But I guess $5 wholesale compared to $40 drives the market. Why even breed a non-morph ball for the going rate? The only reason I can come up with is because it would drive the price up to encourage people to take care of their investment. It's a shame they don't even if the monetary cost is a nickel. Off my soapbox now. I hope the snake recovers nicely.
 
If you want I think I've got some leftover silvadene that was prescribed for my iguana. I'll be back home in a week and can mail it off to you free if it would help.

Sounds like you are doing a good job with him. That's so generous!

As far as wc bps go, I think it's a bad idea to go out and buy one, but then again wc balls that aren't imported for the pet trade are fed into the oriental food trade and for leather. Either way a bad situation for the snakes. It's one of those sad cases where not importing them has no effect on how many are captured from the wild.
 
I don't believe importing them dosn't have an effect on how many are taken from the wild, but balls are farmed and thats a lot better then the way a lot of other herps are collected IMO.
 
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