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jscrick
at Fri Aug 22 17:52:54 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jscrick ]
Yes. Inclusions in themselves may or may not indicate that IBD, a retrovirus, is present. Further diagnostic measures are necessary to confirm that diagnosis.
I once sold a Brazilian Rainbow Boa to a fellow at a show. He had effectively killed it within 15 minutes after the sale by placing the deli cup, with snake inside, in his car. When he returned 20 minutes later and told me his snake "needed a drink". After seeing the pretzel in the deli cup, I told him - "You have just killed your snake". I sprayed it with water and steam arose. He explained to me his snake would be fine. A couple days later the guy calls me up and tells me his snake died of IBD and he wanted another. That in itself makes no sense. Why would he want another of my IBD infected Brazilian Rainbow Boas? He had taken the dead animal to the vet and the vet had pronounced it had died from IBD on examination. While the dead animal was severely contorted and obviously neuromuscularly afflicted, it had died of heat stroke, not IBD. That snake and it's sibling were both stretched out on my arm straight as arrows when the guy was deciding which one to buy/kill.
My point being -- sometimes a little more investigation is required.
As always, a true story. I've got a million of them. If I told them all, Gods would be falling from Heaven.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer
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- how old is your oldest boa? - reagorfu, Thu Aug 21 10:50:55 2008
- RE: how old is your oldest boa? - Jonathan_Brady, Thu Aug 21 13:10:28 2008
- I have one in its 40's - Warren_Booth, Thu Aug 21 16:11:54 2008
- I have a 12 year old het albino. np - SenorSnake, Thu Aug 21 17:48:44 2008
- pic - SenorSnake, Thu Aug 21 18:08:53 2008
- RE: how old is your oldest boa? - HerpLver, Thu Aug 21 18:42:24 2008
- RE: how old is your oldest boa? - Slithering_Serpents, Thu Aug 21 19:20:17 2008
- hmmm... - Jonathan_Brady, Thu Aug 21 19:45:11 2008
- RE: hmmm... - Slithering_Serpents, Thu Aug 21 21:19:00 2008
- Lots of old Rainbow Boas - Jeff Clark, Thu Aug 21 21:48:43 2008
- RE: how old is your oldest boa? - jscrick, Thu Aug 21 23:15:35 2008
- 20 yr old normal, 10 yr old albino &more - AbsoluteApril, Fri Aug 22 10:33:46 2008
- How old indeed? - boaphile, Fri Aug 22 11:11:53 2008
- I still have my first 2 boas........... - garweft, Fri Aug 22 12:25:54 2008
- Rainbow Boa story... - jscrick, Fri Aug 22 12:54:35 2008
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RE: A slight correction: - jscrick, Fri Aug 22 17:52:54 2008
