aSnakeLovinBabe
04-09-2008, 08:37 PM
Well today I found my very frst snake of the year, a charming female sirtalis. Me and my boyfriends sister went on a walk through the woods by the lake, and she screams and points at the ground and sure enough, it's a snake! Of course I did one of my flying leaps to capture her, and upon picking her up, I realized something is very wrong. She has a HUGE blockage in the lower intestine. It is about 2 inches above her vent. I can feel the actual blockage, and backed up behind it is a VERY big bulge that is not hard like the actual lump, it's just very bloated as I imagine that part of her is full of excrement. She tried to musk me, and only a tiny bit of excrement came out. I can see her often struggling to relieve herself to no avail.
I brought her home, my reasoning was this: I have saved a snake with a blockage before, and I knew that left on her own, she has NO chance of a recovery. She is still alert, and is surprisingly calm when handled. I even carried her over to a stream, held her down to the water's edge where she stayed curled up in my hand and lapped up a drink of water. After that I just couldn't leave her out there!!! I even brought her in her little critter cage with a heating pad over to my boyfriends to keep an eye out. I have given her a very warm soak and a gentle but persistent massage. I got a little bit of excrement to come out, but not near enough. If I had the money she'd be at the vet in surgery right now!!!! I am just going to keep trying to help her pass it. I am not extremely optimistic about it, but there is a chance. I mean, what were the odds of all the snakes in the woods, me finding this one!! A really big part of me was saying Shannon, just put her down and walk away... but she is trying so hard to live and it's either let her go and give her a 0% chance of making it, or try and get her to pass this blockage so that I can return her to her home with another chance!
Sorry, the camera is dead, no photos are available yet.
I brought her home, my reasoning was this: I have saved a snake with a blockage before, and I knew that left on her own, she has NO chance of a recovery. She is still alert, and is surprisingly calm when handled. I even carried her over to a stream, held her down to the water's edge where she stayed curled up in my hand and lapped up a drink of water. After that I just couldn't leave her out there!!! I even brought her in her little critter cage with a heating pad over to my boyfriends to keep an eye out. I have given her a very warm soak and a gentle but persistent massage. I got a little bit of excrement to come out, but not near enough. If I had the money she'd be at the vet in surgery right now!!!! I am just going to keep trying to help her pass it. I am not extremely optimistic about it, but there is a chance. I mean, what were the odds of all the snakes in the woods, me finding this one!! A really big part of me was saying Shannon, just put her down and walk away... but she is trying so hard to live and it's either let her go and give her a 0% chance of making it, or try and get her to pass this blockage so that I can return her to her home with another chance!
Sorry, the camera is dead, no photos are available yet.