My husband works in pet store and a couple of days ago someone brought in a Honduran milk snake and sold it and the tank for $30. He came home that night and told me about it that it seemed to be starved or something because the snake is roughly 2-2.5 feet and is extremely thin, his spine is looks like an upside-down "V". I told my husband that I wanted it because I wanted to ensure the poor thing was taken care of (we have a wide variety of animals in our house including a white-sided bull snake, an Argentine black& white tegu, and 7 other animals) so we're pretty seasoned when it comes to animal care. He gave his boss back the $30 and now the snake is in my living room. When he was at the pet store he inhaled 4 pinkie mice, that he was barely strong enough to eat, then last night 2 more. And when we brought him home he stuck his head down inside a water bowl and drank for a solid 2 minutes, maybe even more. He is extremely lethargic, I was looking for some advice on feeding and trying to build him up to what he should be.

*Additional info:
He has had a bowel movement- about an hour after he was fed the last two pinkies it was semi-solid and he had the movement as he drank the water.

Just to show the neglect- the bottom .5-.75 inches of his tail was so hard with unshed skin it took about half an hour for me to peel it off with finger nails and it was about 6-8 layers of skin the skin underneath the shed was extremely pale and the scales are damaged.

The guy that brought it in claimed he had only had the snake for a short period of time and that "a buddy of his gave it to him" and he wasn't sure what to do with it, so he decided to sell it. It doesn't seem that it has properly been taken care of, and I'd like to ensure that the rest of his life is better than it has been.

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