>>Over the past few weeks I have been feeding my Anery one weaned rat every Monday. I have been keeping a close eye on him becuase he has yet to go to the bathroom in atleast 3 weeks. After seeing him soak him self in his water bowl both before and after he shed and seeking some advice from a breeder around here along with posting on this forum, I decided to try to give him a hand and thats when my day all of a sudden changed.
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>>I started off by soaking him in a styrofome cooler in warm water for more than a hour. I had to keep taking water out and adding new to keep it warm. After that didn't work I decided to try what Michael Burton suggested. I started to rub down the belly while pinching the area toward the tail. I felt some very hard items in the belly and after a lil coursing a Jelly Bean size solid mass came shooting out. After a lil more coursing another same size solid mass came out followed by some urea. I then noticed that there was some red (watery blood) liquid coming from the cloaca from the size of those Jelly Beans. After they were both out the rest of the crap came out pretty easily. I took him into the bath room and cleaned him off with some clean fresh water, put him up and then washed my hands.
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>>Has anyone else ever had to do this? Did I do the right thing?
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>>David
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Some Vet's actually call this technique"Milking"I have done it before a few times in the past but dont like doing it an have never seen blood before?I was taught to smuch the as you called them Jelly beans into looser stool matter so that the boa's cloaca is not harmed by these solid matter's.This is only my own experience an I hope this helps you.An that your boa is all right.Thanks,Eric
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