Friend of mine and I were shopping today, mostly to pick up supplies for my brat but we got to the store and someone had brought them a snake and well upon checking it out I noticed first ALOT of scars on it that look like either retained shed or scarred over rat bites. The reason I say retained shed is because it was bumpy not smooth like I've seen most scars on other animals. Plus as I was watching the snake, which is a burmese by the way, five feet long and actually quite thick, well he kept twitching his head a bit. He'd lift it up just a lil bit and it'd twitch as well if you know anything about horses, they twitch when a fly lands on them. Well this is what he looked to be doing. I couldn't see mites anywhere and I was too afraid to pick him up for fear if he did have mites I'd infect my own snake. I've never had a mite problem with my current animal and really hope to never have this problem.

What could the twitching be, my friend really wants to buy her first reptile and she wants it to be a python or corn, not a burmese because they are large, but I told her I would ask about this situation here because the snake in question is a burm.



On the other hand, outside the three scars he had and the head twitching, he was a beauty, the three lil bumpy areas were small and the rest of his body gleamed, he was really shiny and looked really smooth, but again, I feared touching him in case of mites and I know nothing about RI so I didn't know if those could be contagious either, if he had that, I know enough to know I don't want Frosty ever getting one of those either!



Thanks for reading if you got this far.....

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