I forgot to mention earlier........the snake is having a very hard time breathing right now due to the RI, so of course the snake isn't going to want to try to stuff a huge meal down it's face to make it's breathing that much tuffer in the process, so if you DO offer it a meal, offer one or two VERY VERY small dead meals that will make it easy for her to gulp them down without any effort, and without impeding here glottis tube(wind pipe) in the lower jaw that is used for breathing,...this is EXTREMELY important.



Also, even when it gets better, do NOT offer it huge meals!.....many people have the impression that giving a thin, sick snake frequent, and/or large meals is a good thing to put weight on the animal, when in fact, it is the very worse thing to do. thin sick snakes that haven't eaten in a very long time lack the proper amount of acid, enzymes, and electrolytes to properly digest meals that would normally be able to be digested properly, and quite often end up regurgitating the meal,..this in turn starts a very fast and serious downward spiral for the snake,...when if a much smaller meal was offered in the first place, this would have allowed the stomach to GRADUALLY aclimate itself back to proper function again.





~Doug





~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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