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BPerry
at Wed Jan 27 12:20:28 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BPerry ]
Last month I was given a cali king (felmale, 4.5 ftish) by a collector who didn’t want her. She was very very skinny. She also wouldn’t eat. (I named he Mary Kate after the Olsen twin) So I figured she was compacted and soaked her several times a day. She used the bathroom about 5 times in 4 days. After about 2 weeks of this she started to eat. I’ve been feeding her 2 days after she uses the bathroom (so she doesn’t get backed up again), so about once a week for her to gain weight. Ive had her for about a month now. The other night she was making a lot of noise in her cage, and I looked and she was biting herself by her anal plate and constricting herself. She was really trying to eat/kill herself. I tried to pull her off herself but I didn’t want to hurt her (because she was still skinny). So I put some warm water in a tub (about 3 inch deep) and l put her in there and she let go of herself, I then closed the tub top. I went get a mouse for her, because I figured she tried to eat her herself because there was fresh bathroom in the cage and that might have stimulated her to try and attack herself (because she was biting around where she uses the bathroom and the fleshy stuff was exsposed). It’s a complete theory… I know that snakes don’t really go for that, but I wasn’t sure what else to think. It wasn’t even a minute and I opened the top of the tub and the snake was under the water with her mouth wide open and tongue out. I reach into the tub and take her and she was completely stiff and dead. It was so stiff that I could hold it by end of the body and the rest would still hold itself up, like a statue. I was really shocked. I guess she got over stressed and just died. So I put her on my counter to try and figure out what just happened and about 10 mins go by and I see the mouth move a little bit (its still stiff ). I get weird out, but my friend tells me its just the nerves making it move and that snakes will still love a little after they die. It would move its mouth a little bit about every 10 mins- 5mins. I decide im going to put it back into its cage, just in case it wasn’t actually dead. It was in there for about 40mins when I came back to check on it. It was still stiff, but I knocked the cage and it slowly moved its body for a sec. I didn’t think it was a coincidence and an over hour it slowly came back to life. It was really weird. I feed her last night, and she ate.
My friend said that there was a youtube vid of a cali that was kept in a small take that attacked itself, and when they put it in a large take it had not do it since. My cali was in a 10 gallon (I was going to get it a bigger cage once it got better or find it a new home once it was a healthy size) so shes now in larger cage. This MIGHT have been the cause… but im not sure. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable but it was really strage and crazy and the snake was sick to start off with. (by the way its new name is Britney Spears)
Does anyone know what the hell happened?
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 Suicidal, Weird behavior in Cali King - BPerry, Wed Jan 27 12:20:28 2010
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