• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Very slow after being lost for a week

M

Mattrg

New member
Ok, so I just found my corn snake just laying out in the open. He escaped about a week ago and he is very deep into the shedding process. He is very young (he's wild caught so not sure how old exactly) a little skinnier than the width of a pencil. When I picked him up he barely moved at all but now he is slowly slithering into one of his hides. Is there anything I should do right away or should I just give him space and let him warm up? I also have a mouse problem and started poisoning them with an anti coagulant right before he escaped. Is there a chance that the poison could have gotten into a pinky and then into my cornsnake? I'm sorry, I know my paragraph is kind of a mess, I'm just a little frantic.
 
Best you can do right now is leave him alone and warm up. No use worrying about the poison at this point.

Is this a snake you caught in PA ?
 
Yes, my friend caught it about 6 months ago. I got this type of poison with my dog in mind because it has an antidote. I think it's vitamin k. I'm assuming there's no use in try to give it to a snake.
 
Yes, no use. It is probably just lethargic from cold.
Normally local (PA) snakes would be in brumation this time of year so they can withstand cold temps.
Could it be a Eastern Milk Snake ? They look very similar to corn snakes. Corn snakes are not indigenous to PA.
Has it eaten for you ?
 
This took a very sad turn. I came back to the cage to find him once again setting out in the open. When I picked him up I saw it. Right behind his head his body was crushed. someone must have stepped on him. The poor thing must have been on his last breath when I put him back in the terrarium and watched him slowly go into his hide. Thank you for responding to my post and trying to help.
 
Ooh, that's sad.

You can't depend on Vitamin K to save your dog from poison- you're very lucky if you catch it in time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top