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okreptilerescue
at Mon Aug 6 21:07:43 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by okreptilerescue ]
ahhhh- i'm remembering why i dont come here.
I am 1 semester away from a degree in herpetology- I've run a rescue for 5 years and had snakes for going on 8 years now- I am NOT by any means a "newbie" to snakes OR retics. But I certainly don't have 20-30 years under my belt like many others- we're getting there though. Meanwhile: This is a RESCUE ANIMAL THAT WAS ABANDONED AT A RENTAL PROPERTY- WE GOT HER LAST WEEK- I am not retarded- I know its not a dog= she doesn't exactly wag her tail or have fur- Thats a bit insulting I think. I am NOT stupid and I have done much much more than my fair share of research on these animals and know quite a bit about them. HOWEVER:
The reason I asked about the water is because in all these years I have not once seen that much water come out- and certainly not out of something so small. I would estimate the amount of water to be a bit shy of 1/8 cup- it totally flooded the bottom of the enclosure. And after seeing that she has regurged at LEAST once before- it got me a bit worried.
I was not handling her- i never once said I was. I also never said she was an albino... not sure where that came from- she is infact a tiger.
I don't use hides for the most part- when i got her- she came cage and all- i just put her back in her original cage to let her un-stress from the move- it was 4 hours in the car and an hour on each end to load/unload- we got several snakes from this house- landlord called after she evicted someone- they left some 28 animals there- i took the 7 reptiles.
I hadn't seen her out exploring at all for the entire week so when i did- all i had available that could be quickly thawed was a fuzzy- the fuzzies i gave her were one step down from a small mouse- (crawler?- everyone calls them something else)- it was enough to give her a bulge without stretching her out.
I also gave her this because in her cage when we got her was a regurged mouse- it reiked of regurge and it was a HUGE adult mouse which is borderline too big for her. I imagine, just by looking at her that she had some fat reserves before and regurged again and again and again and lost weight. She has wrinkles in her skin- excess. She's only about 1 inch around and her head is the size of a quarter. her head is definatly out of proportion from her being skinny.
also- I do use heat pads- I bought a giant roll of flexwatt from big apple herps a while back- best stuff ever made.
needless to say- she's doing just fine and will be eating a larger prey item next week- I certainly don't want her to loose another meal.
The advice you gave was good- on changing heat and bigger meals but i have belly heat and she yaked her last HUGE meal so we started small- it goes down better that way- and if needed- comes back up better... This was her first meal I've given her- I dont know anything about her- except that she was abandoned, covered in shed, skinny and dehydrated- and then stressed.
thanks
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RE: drinking/eating/water gush - okreptilerescue, Mon Aug 6 21:07:43 2007