mikm
05-11-2007, 11:10 AM
Good Day All ... I have a young Oregon Red Spot female that has weathered what appears to be the worst of a birth defect. She developed kinks throughout her spine from head to tail. She always had one small (though abnormally sharp in hindsight) kink close to the very end of her tail. Early this year she began to develop additional kinks throughout her body. It got so bad that depending upon her position she could look accordian like. She was constantly moving about her enclosure during this time. I thought that to perhaps be in response to physical discomfort. This went on for approximately two weeks. My sole reason for not euthanizing her during this period was that she continued to feed very well. I was unable to come to terms with taking a life when she herself did not appear to have given up on life. She ate three pinks each week during this 2 week period.
This 'uncomfortable' phase occured roughly in January 2007 afterwhich her kinks seem to have smoothed out for lack of a better term. She has a very visable kink at the base of her neck followed by perhaps 3 additional 'softer' (much less noticable) ones. She is a very nicely colored animal, orange/red head but very small, I would guess no more then a foot long ... 'sub-yearling' size for lack of a better term. She continues to eat extremely well, taking 3 to 4 f/t pinks per feeding and with the exception of the 2 week period described above, she moves about 'normally'.
My reason for this post is in quest of possibly re-homing her. I have a friend who would like to take her however my friend has no previous reptile experience and that concerns me. As well intentioned as she is, it doesn't seem 'fair' to me. If anyone should have any interest in providing a new home for this girl please PM me and we can go from there. I do have pics of her ...
Happy Friday to All ...
marian
This 'uncomfortable' phase occured roughly in January 2007 afterwhich her kinks seem to have smoothed out for lack of a better term. She has a very visable kink at the base of her neck followed by perhaps 3 additional 'softer' (much less noticable) ones. She is a very nicely colored animal, orange/red head but very small, I would guess no more then a foot long ... 'sub-yearling' size for lack of a better term. She continues to eat extremely well, taking 3 to 4 f/t pinks per feeding and with the exception of the 2 week period described above, she moves about 'normally'.
My reason for this post is in quest of possibly re-homing her. I have a friend who would like to take her however my friend has no previous reptile experience and that concerns me. As well intentioned as she is, it doesn't seem 'fair' to me. If anyone should have any interest in providing a new home for this girl please PM me and we can go from there. I do have pics of her ...
Happy Friday to All ...
marian