Any improvement in your snake yet? Fingers crossed here for you, as well as for Elle.
Well as it stands theres 3 snakes in treatment ....
Elles black milk snake... and my 2 pythons ( one is my daughters the sad thing is it wa sher first python and first snake... and she had waited until her 10th birthday for it as i felt that was an age she would cope better with the gravity of keeping an animal such as this)
.. obviously as we know sadly windsor was euthanised...
The carpet python is not getting worse.. but today the royal is looking worse and shes actually on medication too...
My father who has agreat fear of snakes has beenamazing.. he is helping hold the snakes whilsti give them oral bayrtil medication... he is an avid animal enthusiast but disgarees strongly withthem being kept in captivity... he was the ne who first stirred a passion in animals when i was a kid...
the fact he has put al fears to one side for the sake of the snakes has impressed me no end... without him im not sure i would have managed the royals meds alone... as she is a very strong determined snake...
They did however both eat on friday which was a relief... so they obviously still have a survival instinct.. both pythons have been taken from their vivariums and are in hospital tanks ... with no decor.. only a hide and a water bowl... they are in a room thats air temps are lovely and warm and they seem to be active ....
Im more worried now about the royal which is my daughters... it seems to be worsening so if i do not see satisfactory improvement this week I wil ask for it to be admitted as the carpet python was for critical care...
You know the funny thing is through all this upset and difficult time... elle and i have really pulled together... when the select few others were trying to pull us to pieces....
I could have been mad at her for the mistakes she made when my carpet python was at her house and she could have been mad at me for posting info.. BUT instead we have learned from all this.... with no anger towards one another and a great deal of support... we have went through every bit of husbandry and found we were both lacking on occasions... but the support she has given me and i have given her has not been lacking.. we have went to the vets together... satyed up til 4 am working out how we could have passed it from animal to animal.. dealt with any issues such as cleaning and bleaching and the likes....
I think its safe to say that I am the most sanitised , bleached, anti-bacterial home i have ever known ....
thank Lil for your concern... I wil continue to update as I get results...
Im praying for them soon but the vets concern is that they tests were carried out 3 days after the snake had been on medications.. so it may not show the specific virus or bacteria... if indeed one is present.....