Snake lover 3-25
05-08-2008, 03:55 PM
okay... so seeing as a few people have found injured snakes this year... i figured it was time to tell this story.... i have to start off by telling you what happened before so that you understand why i did it...
so i baught 2 corn snakes... my first ever REAL pets... so they were eating and doing great... then all of a sudden the female got mouth rot..... i did everything i could... i took her back to the guy that i bought her from and he showed me how to treat it and so i took it back home... and she never got better... she stopped eating and eventually past on....:( so then the male that i still had was alone but still doing great... i got a second female for christmas and they went into brumation shortly after.... but they never came out.... i tried everything that i could... i force fed them... but they always through it up:(.... the female was much smaller than the male... and so she went first.... then after months of trying to get them to eat... he past on too.....:(
so ever since then i vowed never to buy another again... no matter how much i wanted it.... so then i found chance... he had been hit buy a lawn mower... and he had no skin for about 3 inches down his body.... you could see his muscle and some of his organs... thank god they were not damaged.... i still believed that i could have done more for my corns.... somehow i could have made them eat... somehow i could have saved them... somehow i had failed...... so.... i swore to save him.... i knew that his chances weren't good.... as i had seen one just like this dead.... but i felt like it was my chance to make up for my corns... i felt like it was my duty to save it..... like i HAD to.... so i did...... i put bacitracin on it 3 times daily... for 6 months... i cleaned his cage daily... i changed his water daily... and i fed him about once a week... because i knew that it would be a slow healing wound... and i knew that if he lost his strength he would never make it......:( i'm guessing that he was a yearling and he was full of energy.... after his first shed i somehow knew he would survive.... eventhough he still had a very open... very exposed... very bad wound.... so i kept up with his cleaning and medicating and feeding... and he started to improve... finally after about 6 months he had a fresh layer of skin over the wound... but this skin was so thin and so new that you could literally see through it... so i waited.... and waited... and waited... and finally about 2 months later you could no longer see through his skin:D... it was still alot lighter than the rest of his body... but he was well enough to start acting like he wanted to go.... he wanted to leave.... and i knew it... he would escape often no matter what i did to prevent it:o... and so i did... eventhough i loved him... i let him go....
and i no longer have regrets... i no longer feel like i could have saved the corns... i no longer feel like i have to make up for something that was never my fault in the first place... i no longer feel in debt...... but i will forever keep my vows to never buy another snake again..... no matter how much i want to....................
so i baught 2 corn snakes... my first ever REAL pets... so they were eating and doing great... then all of a sudden the female got mouth rot..... i did everything i could... i took her back to the guy that i bought her from and he showed me how to treat it and so i took it back home... and she never got better... she stopped eating and eventually past on....:( so then the male that i still had was alone but still doing great... i got a second female for christmas and they went into brumation shortly after.... but they never came out.... i tried everything that i could... i force fed them... but they always through it up:(.... the female was much smaller than the male... and so she went first.... then after months of trying to get them to eat... he past on too.....:(
so ever since then i vowed never to buy another again... no matter how much i wanted it.... so then i found chance... he had been hit buy a lawn mower... and he had no skin for about 3 inches down his body.... you could see his muscle and some of his organs... thank god they were not damaged.... i still believed that i could have done more for my corns.... somehow i could have made them eat... somehow i could have saved them... somehow i had failed...... so.... i swore to save him.... i knew that his chances weren't good.... as i had seen one just like this dead.... but i felt like it was my chance to make up for my corns... i felt like it was my duty to save it..... like i HAD to.... so i did...... i put bacitracin on it 3 times daily... for 6 months... i cleaned his cage daily... i changed his water daily... and i fed him about once a week... because i knew that it would be a slow healing wound... and i knew that if he lost his strength he would never make it......:( i'm guessing that he was a yearling and he was full of energy.... after his first shed i somehow knew he would survive.... eventhough he still had a very open... very exposed... very bad wound.... so i kept up with his cleaning and medicating and feeding... and he started to improve... finally after about 6 months he had a fresh layer of skin over the wound... but this skin was so thin and so new that you could literally see through it... so i waited.... and waited... and waited... and finally about 2 months later you could no longer see through his skin:D... it was still alot lighter than the rest of his body... but he was well enough to start acting like he wanted to go.... he wanted to leave.... and i knew it... he would escape often no matter what i did to prevent it:o... and so i did... eventhough i loved him... i let him go....
and i no longer have regrets... i no longer feel like i could have saved the corns... i no longer feel like i have to make up for something that was never my fault in the first place... i no longer feel in debt...... but i will forever keep my vows to never buy another snake again..... no matter how much i want to....................