Yes. Same as the others said. Sounds like malnutrition.



A long time ago I was asked to go by someone’s apartment and pick up a boa constrictor that had been brought into the country illegally from Mexico. I think the owners bought it in some open air market in Juarez, but it had never fed for them. Anyway, the poor beast was coiled up in a too-small aquarium on some wet, filthy gravel with nothing else in the cage. At the time, the only boa constrictors I had were a couple of 45 pound brutes, so it was a real shock dealing with this poor, scrawny devil. And devil he was. I had never heard a boa hiss before! I got him feeding and he limped along for a few years, but the damage seemed irreversible. His skin felt paper-thin. I tried to handle him as little as possible but when I had to, if I wasn’t very gentle (hard to do with his temperament) his skin would rip open, usually along his sides, revealing the muscles underneath.



-Joan

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