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Poor Brett the Butter-Stripe (Semi-graphic photos)

Sorry to hear about your lovely snake's ordeal:( Thank goodness for good smart vets and caring owners! I hope Brett has a speedy recovery:) Man she is a fantastic looking corn!
 
Poor baby, what an ordeal! So glad you have found such a good vet and close by. Here's wishing a speedy recovery for Brett (and hopefully some babies for you)!
 
Thank god she's ok now!
That should be really stressfull!
I'm glad you had the chance to save her!
:)
 
Thanks folks. :)

She seems to be doing a lot better. She isn't quite so swollen "back there", and her energy and activity levels are good. Sutures come out in a few days. :)
 
Brett

Hey Dean......

Sorry to hear about Brett's surgery!!!! Poor girl!! That is amazing the vet can help her out so much! I hope she recovers well :)
 
Well, her sutures came out on the 22nd. Dr. Zyra let me take a peek inside her cloacal area, and everything looked healthy and pink. But Brett looked pretty beat-up and bruised on the outside, particularly on one side of that area. So the good doctor recommended a cycle of antibiotics. Sounded like a good idea to me. Then she asked me if I'd ever administered pills to a snake. I had to admit that I hadn't ever done so. She assured me that it was easy, and she proceded to demonstate. While the vet tech held the snake at mid-body and at the neck, she carefully pried Brett's jaws apart with a tongue depressor. When the jaws were apart, she dropped in the pill (a quarter-pill, actually), and gently eased it down with a pen eraser. She then massaged the pill down Brett's throat. I would have to do this daily for the next seven days. No problem, I thought.

Well, a trained vet performing this procedure with the assistance of a vet tech may not find this to be a difficult thing, but it was much more difficult a procedure to pull off solo. But I've gotten it done. Thank the snake gods that she's about the mellowest snake you could find. She's been uncooperative, but a trooper. No aggression-- just resistance...
 
starsevol said:
They make those things look easy as pie, don't they?

I'm glad she's doing better though.
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Thanks Beth. :) I was so shocked by the idea that I'd have to administer meds myself that I didn't even think the logistics through. I have only half as many hands as the team that administered the pills in the office! :rolleyes:

Tula_Montage said:
Pills?! Why couldn't they have just given you oral baytril?
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I really can't answer that. The pills are Baytril. :shrugs:
 
Easier or harder than a kitty?

Snakes are wiggly, but kitties are pointy on 5 outta 6 ends.
 
Jrgh17 said:
Easier or harder than a kitty?

Snakes are wiggly, but kitties are pointy on 5 outta 6 ends.
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I've administered meds to kitties, and I'd have to say that snakes are more difficult. It's easier to get a cat's mouth open and shove a pill down its throat. You may get shredded in the process if you don't dress appropriately, but a cat's mouth is much less delicate. You can't use brute force on a snake, even for its own good. It's much easier to damage a snake.
 
Roy Munson said:
Thanks Beth. :) I was so shocked by the idea that I'd have to administer meds myself that I didn't even think the logistics through. I have only half as many hands as the team that administered the pills in the office! :rolleyes:

Dean, with the size of YOUR hands, I'm thinking you only had a THIRD as many :D
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Roy Munson said:
I really can't answer that. The pills are Baytril. :shrugs:
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Tell your vet you feel it's an unnecessary stress for you and the snake and you would feel more comfortable administrating oral liquid baytril from a syringe. It's easy, I just used the syringe to open the corner of the snakes mouth and squirted it in with no spillage :)
 
Tula_Montage said:
Tell your vet you feel it's an unnecessary stress for you and the snake and you would feel more comfortable administrating oral liquid baytril from a syringe. It's easy, I just used the syringe to open the corner of the snakes mouth and squirted it in with no spillage :)
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That sounds like a girly method. Jamming pills down a snake's throat is more manly! (But I WILL keep it in mind next time.)
 
Roy Munson said:
That sounds like a girly method. Jamming pills down a snake's throat is more manly! (But I WILL keep it in mind next time.)
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Oh be quiet you big jessy! It's far more manly to to it swiftly in the least possible time than fumble around and make a mess of things. :rofl:
 
I just tuned in and saw this~ sorry to hear your girl had so much trouble! Sounds like she is on the road to recovery now~ even if breeding again is not in her future (such a shame~ she is beautiful!). How are the eggs doing though? Does it look like you've got some live ones to work with?
 
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