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Hi everyone, I'm hoping to get some advice conserning my 19yo corn snake, Fred.

About a year ago I noticed a lump growing under her lateral scales. She shed the mass off a couple of times, sometimes with scary, bloody results requiring ingenious measures to bandage her up...and I was hoping it was just a lipoma. I don't even know if snakes GET lipomas.

So took her in, .....biopsy points to cancerous growth. As some of you have mentioned in older forums, surgery is a bit on the pricey side, especially for such an elderly snake who's had a good slither.

So my question is, when is it time? Where do i go to have her put down? Shes still eating, curious, moving, etc... not by any means lethargic. And she doesn't pull away when I touch the tumor, so I'm pretty sure its not causing her pain... but how do I REALLY know?

Any thoughts from past experiences would be really helpful

--Pandy

THe vet that helped diagnose will be able to do the euthanasia.
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I usually wait until they stop eating or start acting lethargic, I have lots of clients ask how to know "when its time" I usually tell them that they know the animal better then I do, and that the animal will tell them. Sorry you have to deal with this, may it be calm and peaceful for both of you...
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