With all respect to my colleagues Rob & DT....DO NOT use any type of mechanical means to remove an eye-cap!!!!!!!Metal or Q-tip!!!!



Bobby is much closer to the correct way...



Here's what you do...Go to any store and get artificial tear ointment (not vaseline, BobbyLee, it is actually a DRYING agent!)Glop a bunch on each eye and put the snake in a humid environment as per Rob/DT...Do this for several days and if the cap doesn't come off by itself, (Honest to God!) boys, use the sticky side of DUCT tape or other adhesive tape and roll across the eye cap...It will adhere and come off easily...



Prevention is better...When any of my Dry's go into shed, I put the ointment on DAILY and virtually never have a problem anymore...I'm in Colorado where the ambient humidity is rarely above cottonmouth!!! So I've learned the hard way...



3 years ago my prize boar TXN, Bubba, had a stuck cap...(Remember I'm a trauma doctor, supposed to have good hands)I used a small pair of forceps to "remove" the caps...Several days later his eye's look cloudy again...Then they turn green with PUS!!!

$2500 and 3 months later, my vet finally has my complication cured! (Maybe I should look for a new profession, but I'm too old!!)



Please guys, don't pry the cap off with anything...I know we all have done it and most of the time without any problem, but it is not worth it...Tape works great...



OK, Rob and DT, fire away...I've just worked 9 of the last 11 nights and am tired, so I'm sure I sound way overboard, but this is an issue we all face frequently and the "less" physical the approach is, the better...CG
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Carl W Gossett

Garage Door Herps

Monument,Colorado...northern territory of the Great Republic of Texas

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