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Help, boa VERY ill

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Posted by: cactuskent at Sun Oct 23 06:03:25 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by cactuskent ]  
   

I came to clean my young boa's tank this morning, it smelt unusually bad, which is down to a (too) large mouse it accidently ate (when feeding another tank I dropped it in it's feeding bucket and it began digesting, didn't seem too much of a problem at the time. so I let it be)

When I picked it up this morning I thought it was dead, it drooped like a piece of rope the only indicator of life is the odd tongue flicker. It's vent is a little red and popped out. some of the skin is VERY sagging. On the floor it can slither slightly but I'm not sure whether it can use it's lower body or not. It's very lethargic and tired looking, it's really horrible to watch and I don't know what to do. As I type this it's body is in a wrinkled clump, tongue half flickering and just managing to move it's head.

Please advise.

Kenty

*bear in mind it's sunday, no vets*


   

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