Mommy2many
03-28-2014, 04:48 PM
Ok, before everyone freaks, this has a happy ending. However, at 5:30 am yesterday morning, I was not so sure.
My and Erin's beautiful radix given to us by Steve (from Iowa) I feel I have to state it that way like Jake from State Farm. :); had an unfortunate encounter with our cat, Po.
Time and time again, I have told the scaly ones that they cannot play with the furry ones and the furry ones that they cannot play with the scaly ones.
Beauty, a 2 1/2 foot gorgeous radix decided that she would "explore" the territories adjacent to her home. This must have include a 4 1/2 foot drop onto the cold tile floor, unless she was lucky enough to have landed on the padded chair first. She has never been one to roam in her 2 years here and I had gotten complacent in returning the clips to the tops of their houses, as I have had no escapees since that dreadful summer when "Noodle" was lost. RIP Noodle :(
I came out to go to work at 5:30 am. My Husband was going in for 1 day surgery that morning. I went towards my snakes, which border my fish tank. I see "something" on the tile floor by the fishtank. At first I can't tell what it is. It looks like ink or something red... I start to realize what it may be and look to the right and there is Beauty, all curled up and the cat. I go to swipe her up and the cat takes a swing at her. I kick the cat out of the way (not hard and aggressively, I know the cat was simply being a cat)
I bring Beauty out to my kitchen. She is all curled up and I'm flipping her over and she appears dead. I'm about to cry. I keep looking at her and flipping her. I sense that she may be moving??? but can't really tell. Her eyes are glazed. I am fearing the worst. I bring her under the light and I sense that she may have moved again. Then I see her breathe. Ok, she is alive; at least for now. Her wounds appear to be the very tip of her tail, maybe a nick here and there but the worst seems to ber her vent. It is all bloody and exposed. I can't really tell what is going on. It also seems to be the worst wound. I need to go to work, so I gently place her back in her home and she immediately goes for her rock hide. I move it over for her. I then see that she takes 2-3 large breaths. Now I'm thinking & hoping, maybe she was playing dead? My husband checks on her in 90 minutes and says she is swimming in her water bowl and that she has hidden from him in her hide. I come back after runs and check on her. She appears to be much better than earlier. Her vent looks good and I have now called the vet. The vet is not in but agrees to come in and check on her.
In the end, she lost the very tip of her tail (can hardly tell). She has another wound (not too bad) between her tail and vent. She also has some "nicks" along her body. I think they may be claw marks, not teeth. She did poop blood at the vet, but may be trauma from the vent and/or a nick in the intestine.
All in all, I have to give her shots for 6 days and then oral antibiotics for six days. She also has that silver sulfide stuff for the wounds. She is doing well and is also a great patient for the shots.
We have re-clipped her tank and won't soon forget almost losing a family member.
My and Erin's beautiful radix given to us by Steve (from Iowa) I feel I have to state it that way like Jake from State Farm. :); had an unfortunate encounter with our cat, Po.
Time and time again, I have told the scaly ones that they cannot play with the furry ones and the furry ones that they cannot play with the scaly ones.
Beauty, a 2 1/2 foot gorgeous radix decided that she would "explore" the territories adjacent to her home. This must have include a 4 1/2 foot drop onto the cold tile floor, unless she was lucky enough to have landed on the padded chair first. She has never been one to roam in her 2 years here and I had gotten complacent in returning the clips to the tops of their houses, as I have had no escapees since that dreadful summer when "Noodle" was lost. RIP Noodle :(
I came out to go to work at 5:30 am. My Husband was going in for 1 day surgery that morning. I went towards my snakes, which border my fish tank. I see "something" on the tile floor by the fishtank. At first I can't tell what it is. It looks like ink or something red... I start to realize what it may be and look to the right and there is Beauty, all curled up and the cat. I go to swipe her up and the cat takes a swing at her. I kick the cat out of the way (not hard and aggressively, I know the cat was simply being a cat)
I bring Beauty out to my kitchen. She is all curled up and I'm flipping her over and she appears dead. I'm about to cry. I keep looking at her and flipping her. I sense that she may be moving??? but can't really tell. Her eyes are glazed. I am fearing the worst. I bring her under the light and I sense that she may have moved again. Then I see her breathe. Ok, she is alive; at least for now. Her wounds appear to be the very tip of her tail, maybe a nick here and there but the worst seems to ber her vent. It is all bloody and exposed. I can't really tell what is going on. It also seems to be the worst wound. I need to go to work, so I gently place her back in her home and she immediately goes for her rock hide. I move it over for her. I then see that she takes 2-3 large breaths. Now I'm thinking & hoping, maybe she was playing dead? My husband checks on her in 90 minutes and says she is swimming in her water bowl and that she has hidden from him in her hide. I come back after runs and check on her. She appears to be much better than earlier. Her vent looks good and I have now called the vet. The vet is not in but agrees to come in and check on her.
In the end, she lost the very tip of her tail (can hardly tell). She has another wound (not too bad) between her tail and vent. She also has some "nicks" along her body. I think they may be claw marks, not teeth. She did poop blood at the vet, but may be trauma from the vent and/or a nick in the intestine.
All in all, I have to give her shots for 6 days and then oral antibiotics for six days. She also has that silver sulfide stuff for the wounds. She is doing well and is also a great patient for the shots.
We have re-clipped her tank and won't soon forget almost losing a family member.