I am posting this to a lot of different forums. I am just wondering if I am being paranoid. I went to a local exotic pet store. They are a very well known store in the area, nothing but good things about them being said. It was my first time at the store, and I absolutely was astounded with their collection of animals, the knowledge of their reptile manager, the care they take of their animals etc. Astounded, that is, up until the end.



I noticed a Cali king that was freaking out in one of the cages, moving around VERY rapidly. He almost looked as if he were twitching, and sorta rubbing or flipping over to his side. We brought it up to one of the employees, and she went to find out about it. She comes back shortly after saying "Oh thats inclusion body disease, its not a big deal, its nothing really to worry about. It can cause a head wobble in ball pythons." Now I know what IBD is, and as far as I know there has been one recorded case outside of a boa or python, so the chances of it being IBD are VERY remote. The way she acted about it though ticked me off and scared me. We immediately left and called the reptile manager. He told me that the person had only been there for two weeks (and as much as i could tell by the way she acted this was true)This is not a store that imports most of its animals, they breed a lot of them. I was looking to buy a VERY nice striped ghost corn and mex. black king snake from them. Instead as I said, we immediately left, and I went home, threw my cloths in the washer and showered. I know I was probably being too paranoid, but what do you all think?



And what else besides the latter stages of IBD can cause those symptoms? Toxins I know, and thats about it. I don't know kings as well as pythons and corns, would a king get that spastic over getting ready to shed? Was he trying to find something to rub on?

Should I have bought the other snakes anyway because the chances of it being something other than toxins or birth defect, or over heating, would be fairly remote.
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3.2.0 Corn Snakes (Jareth, Morkai, Gunner, Selene, Angela)

1.1.0 Ball Pythons

1.0.0 Yorkshire Terrier (Ragnar)

0.1.0 Kenya Sand Boa het Snow (Moo)

0.1.0 Red Tail Boa(Annabelle)

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