I thought she said "whistling", not wheezing. I could be wrong. A slight whistle is not necessarily indicative of an RI. A slight , ocassional whistle could be caused by anything from a little bit of shed skin left over in a nare, or even some substrate stuck in there. Your poiont is well taken though....its very hard to find a good herp vet in most places. I've struck up a pretty good relationship with a very nice lady here locally who claims to be an exotics vet. I've taken some animals in for her to examine, sex, and snap a few radiographs. Whenever I have an issue (a hatchling a few years back that had a malformed eye, and a snake that apparently injuered itself some how), I usually go in, and tell her about the research I've done into the issue (I have a B.S. and M.S. in biology with an organismic/ecology track so we can "talk shop". She tells me what she thinks, we come to an agreement if we can, and then treat accordingly. Interestingly, in both cases we decided that no treatment was indicated, and both snakes are doing fine. The fact is though, I kind of feel like I'm provideing her with a second internship. I just want to keep the lines open in case I ever need meds or anything. It would be nice to have an quality, experienced exotics vet nearby. The sadest thing of all is that I live within 10 miles of the Virginia/Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. From what I can tell, they do not have any professors all that interested in herp medicine. If I only had a cow......

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• vet advised 40% humidity? - wisema2297, Wed Mar 1 10:01:30 2006
• RE: vet advised 40% humidity? - jessikaowl, Wed Mar 1 10:18:49 2006
• I think you might have misunderstood.... - JP, Wed Mar 1 11:35:56 2006
• I agree...... - kybacon, Wed Mar 1 12:03:30 2006
• RE: I think you might have misunderstood.... - jessikaowl, Wed Mar 1 14:45:24 2006
• RE: I think you might have misunderstood.... - JP, Wed Mar 1 19:50:29 2006
• RE: I think you might have misunderstood.... - 3dmike, Thu Mar 2 07:40:13 2006
• RE: I think you might have misunderstood.... - JP, Thu Mar 2 08:25:57 2006
• RE: I think you might have misunderstood.... - 3dmike, Fri Mar 3 09:51:12 2006
• RE: vet advised 40% humidity? - jmartin104, Wed Mar 1 11:25:10 2006
• Weather conditions in Africa - zefdin, Wed Mar 1 12:02:09 2006
• RE: Weather conditions in Africa - ginebig, Wed Mar 1 12:49:32 2006
• RE: Weather conditions in Africa - zefdin, Wed Mar 1 13:16:15 2006
• Average humidity for Ghana. - zefdin, Wed Mar 1 13:25:40 2006
• a little clarification.... - wisema2297, Wed Mar 1 16:14:06 2006
• IN THE MORNINGS.......... - tns4life, Wed Mar 1 20:54:07 2006
• RE: Nice pairing....>> - BackBeat, Thu Mar 2 18:21:03 2006
• old pic - tns4life, Thu Mar 2 18:56:47 2006