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I work at a nature center and we are currently housing a northern racer that was caught in garden fencing. It did have major cut injuries from being caught in the fencing, but they are closed up and we are waiting for a shed to see how they've healed underneath. It had no problem eating live mice, but it has gone off feed for the past 2 months and is starting to look very skinny. Since then it has also started moving in a jolty manner and almost seems disoriented. We've had racers before that never exhibited this. We talked to a local reptile vet that isn't quite sure what it could be. An infection from the injuries? A problem from it not eating?

Any advice?

Sorry, When they get to that rubber/limp stage death is immanet, when a snake gets hurt in the wild it will go deep undergroung and cool down and go into a long, deep shead cycle that can last months, if you kept it warm and tried to feed it that along with the typical WC animal stress would explaine the loss, another attribute to the loss was the fact that it just came out of eight weeks of hibernation, It was already weak, do it a favor and uthenise it...

Thanks for the help. I ended up euthanizing it towards the end of last week.