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SnakeFreak
at Tue Jun 5 21:23:48 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SnakeFreak ]
The breeder has the right idea, and if the boa that is suspected to have IBD continues going downhill, you should probably do the same. If the baby the breeder is having tested is positive, it's pretty much garanteed that all the snakes have it. This may sound cold, but if any of your adults or the babies are comfirmed to have IBD, they should all be put down. I saw in your other thread that you were considering adopting out 2 of the boas, under no circumstances should you do this unless you can be 100% sure they don't have it. Even if you give them to someone you doesn't have any other boids, who knows where they could end up 5 or 10 years from now. If you can't keep them they should be put down.
Also it doesn't make much sense to spend what I'm sure is becoming a pretty significant amount of money to continue treating the RI if they have IBD anyway, so you should have a biopsy or necropsy done to determine if it is IBD. If you can't afford a biopsy, you could try putting the boa and the BP together for a little while then watching the BP for symptoms, as IBD progresses much quicker in pythons. Sorry if my post sounds cold and insensitive, but logically its really the only thing to do. Let us know what happens with the necropsy on the baby.
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MY COLLECTION:
1.0 '04 Columbian BCI
0.1 '05 Blood Python
0.0.1 Hypo Sonoran BCI
0.2 Ball Pythons
MY WISHLIST:
A Northern Blue-Tongue Skink
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Hogg Island Boas
1.0 Salmon BCI
0.2 Columbian BCI
1.1 Sumatran Short-Tail Pythons
1.1 Borneo Short-Tail Pythons
1.1 Suriname BCC
1.2 Spotted Pythons
2.4 African House Snakes
2.4 Bearded Dragons
1.2 Rankins Dragons
2.6 Crested Geckos
2 ferrets
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RE: Wanting more input on death and dying - SnakeFreak, Tue Jun 5 21:23:48 2007