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anuraanman
at Mon Apr 13 11:22:14 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by anuraanman ]
If the snake was not taken to a vet then I disagree with your decision to euthanize it. As was discussed in your previous thread below there are a few things that quite likely may have been happening with the snake and if feeding the snake more did not help then a vet almost certainly could have fixed it without major capitol input. While I do not personally feel it is appropriate to base care for an animal on whether or not a trip the vet will cost more than the animal is worth, in this case I think the vet bills would have been less than the cost to replace the snake. The bite marks would have cleared up after a couple sheds after the underlying cause was treated.
If I had to guess, you would have spent about $65 on the visit to the vet plus another 30 or 40 on medication, most likely Baytrill.
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did the snake ever see a vet? - anuraanman, Mon Apr 13 11:22:14 2009