larean
04-19-2008, 10:42 AM
I just experienced a little miracle.
My baby corn snake escaped some time ago (a few months ago, I think), and after about a month of searching and setting up traps I gave up.
Today, at work (petstore) my colleague asked me if I had lost a corn snake, because he had found one just outside my door. I now have it in a little enclosure to reduce stress with a dead pinky in case it wants to eat (it certainly needs to!). But apparently it doesn't:(. It's also slightly lethargic, and doesn't react very much to touch/movement. On the bright side, it does move, and occasionaly flicks its tongue out.
What I wanted to ask was: are there any tips on how to make it eat, which is what it needs right now, after having spent most of the winter (!) probably starving.
I'm quite astonished by the endurance of the poor thing, surviving winter (freezing) not eating for months (I can't imagine he found any pinkies) and ending up at the other side of our house, on the street. That was probably how it survived, by staying in a house to keep warm.
My baby corn snake escaped some time ago (a few months ago, I think), and after about a month of searching and setting up traps I gave up.
Today, at work (petstore) my colleague asked me if I had lost a corn snake, because he had found one just outside my door. I now have it in a little enclosure to reduce stress with a dead pinky in case it wants to eat (it certainly needs to!). But apparently it doesn't:(. It's also slightly lethargic, and doesn't react very much to touch/movement. On the bright side, it does move, and occasionaly flicks its tongue out.
What I wanted to ask was: are there any tips on how to make it eat, which is what it needs right now, after having spent most of the winter (!) probably starving.
I'm quite astonished by the endurance of the poor thing, surviving winter (freezing) not eating for months (I can't imagine he found any pinkies) and ending up at the other side of our house, on the street. That was probably how it survived, by staying in a house to keep warm.