This was around a 9 foot burmese python that came into my store from a friend that works in another pet shop in town. He brought it to me because he didn't know what to do. The animal basically was dropped off and they were told the guy was in jail for six months and no one fed it or took care of it. I will attach some pics, I basically manually cleaned the mouth out then treated it with betadine/iodine and pulled what was left of some infected teeth. The infection has spread in to the bone section of the jawline and was so bad that the throat area was completely sealed with infection. Hope these pics dont gross you out too much, they are relatively tame compared to being there. All in all, I pulled out a just a slight bit under one quarter cup of infection from it's mouth and nasal cavity. Kinda makes you wonder why people buy animals that they never intend to take care of.
We are currently exploring law enforcement possiblities just so you know. Pic with this post is just after I realized I should be taking pictures. this is the amount of stuff I took out before I started snapping pictures.
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