You said you cannot see a kink. What are you going by when you say kinked spine anyway?. What does it look like, is there any deformities to the spine you can feel? The top part staying straight in the water sounds to me more like some sort of neurological damage, (which could be caused by a kinked spine but also other things, bad birth, birth defects, accidents), but a kink is obvious. You can feel that kink if it's there by running your hand down the spine. It will feel deformed. I have had some rescues in bad shape too. Most likely it's some neurological wierdness if you cannot palpate (feel) the kink. How about a pic of the back and any description of what you feel. I commend you for trying to rescue this animal, and good luck to you. Usually a pain indication is hissing, snappyness, being unsocial, does this snake have a friendly temperment or not?

BTW..Flipping over and dragging the head around sounds awful. In case that's a sign of IBD you should completely quarantine that snake from your others too.

Caden

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• Kinked spine? - sjenkins, Wed Oct 26 21:14:48 2005
• RE: Kinked spine? - jayf, Thu Oct 27 11:58:57 2005
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• RE: Kinked spine? - ladywhipple02, Thu Oct 27 12:58:14 2005
• RE: Kinked spine? - ladywhipple02, Thu Oct 27 13:07:55 2005
• RE: Kinked spine? - sjenkins, Tue Nov 1 01:08:42 2005
• RE: Kinked spine? - Caden, Mon Oct 31 07:11:14 2005
• RE: Kinked spine? - sjenkins, Tue Nov 1 01:02:27 2005
• RE: Kinked spine? - Caden, Tue Nov 1 11:33:46 2005