Dear members,

I am the proud "mother" of a baby yellow anaconda. "Anna" is already a firm favorite in our house hold. I can not establish her age exactly, but she measures about 500 cm. According to the pet shop she is a few months old. We bought her two weeks ago, but Anna does not want to eat. (Hello, she sleeps next to her prey on the heat pad!!) She is docile, loves to be touched and spends about 9 hours a day outside her cage, in our hands / laps. Anna has started wheezing and I see that she has some "water" bubbles on her nose. Could she have a cold perhaps? We live in South Africa, in a moderate climate (av 24 degrees in the day.) Anna has a cage where she has a huge water bowl for swimming, a heat pad and some loose tree bark. Are we doing something wrong? Since it is Easter weekend, I don't think I could get to a vet. Anybody out there that could tell me anything. Also, is it normal for an anaconda to be so docile? She loves being touched and would often, even if we put her on the ground to explore, go straight back to my husband and crawl into his lap. Regards, Ingrid.

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