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I teach on Long Island and I have 6 corns in my class. Last week one of my parents was on Fire Island and came across a 5 ft thinish snake( very dirty) on the board walk. When they returned it was still there. They bagged it(it didn't try to get away) and brought it to me since I'm the teacher with the snakes. I think it is an albino yellow rat(it either escaped or was left) and I took it to a local reptile store and they said it looked thin, but its mouth was clean and it looked ok. They figured it just came out of burmation/hibernation and it was ready to shed. Wait for it to shed and feed it. Well, it has been 6 days and the eyes are still glazed over. I fed it a few small mice to get some food in its body and it drinks a lot of water. I don't think it can see. When I fed it , it kept missing the food and I almost had to put the food its mouth. It wanted to eat, it kept missing the food. It actually bit itself a few times when it missed the food. Could the eyes be that way and it is just old? Any thoughts would be appreciated. I just want to make it comfortable.

dont know if this will help but, i have had a few snakes that reached old age and they had caterach's(dont know the spelling) on both eys and it looked as if there eyes were cloudy i just fed them dead mice,let them find it on there own maybe this could be a posability with your snake im not sure....good luck

bosc1973

My first thought is: Make sure you keep the snake and anything it comes in contact with away from your 6 corns...Just in case.

I have found that sometimes snakes go through the shed cycle in less than a week, sometimes they may take twice that long. There is still a chance that the snake will shed and be OK once you get it fattened up. Just make sure not to cross-contaminate and put your corns at risk. Duffy