Forum: Urgent Care

I just got a new garter about a week ago and he has pretty bad skin. It looks like he has dry rough patches all over his body. Also he feels as if he...

Ok I am a bit worried... my snake that is in question as to sex (hudina) is a normal checkered garter.... well he/she just regurgitated a pinkie...

This little male was found right off my rear deck. Check out this head/eye injury. There appears to be damage to the supraocular and Preocular...

Hi all 3 of my garters have this and it's getting bad. What can I do to save them?I know a vet can inject the vitamin but I don't have the money...

Serenity was in the care of my friend for the last three months... He finally brought her down to the cities... the other night someone said...

Tonight, while doing a quick inspection of all my snakes I notice one of my females eyes. At first I thought it may be a retained eye cap but upon...

I haven't been here in about a year (been really busy), but I really need help. OK, I have a ribbon snake who appears to have a tumor or growth...

Im not sure if this goes in here. I've had a garter for about 10 months. I believe it escaped the enclosure, but my door was shut so Im pretty sure...

Hi Everyone I hate to have to introduce myself in the "Urgent Care" section, but I'm quite worried about by snake. He seems to have some sort of...

Hi all, I recently noticed one of my garters is spending some of the time with his head up. I waded through some of the old posts and someone...

Hey everyone, I just bought my first Garter 2 weeks ago! He is super cute and seems to be very healty. I got some information from the pet store...

Hi all, I've had a sick little striped keelback with a nasty case of mouth rot for the past month. I took my little snake Lily to the vet after a...

Hi all. I am a new keeper of garter snakes and it seems that one of the two juveniles I got about two weeks ago has some skin bumps and exhibits...

2 days ago while doing a complete visual check on all my radixes, I noticed a problem with one of them. Our adult breeding male(Scar). had 4 or 5...

as many of you know i have an 08 baby who was born quite late in the year... she is not wuite tame and often musks... she is around 18 inches and...

I have a red side I got from Scott in the fall, and she wasn't brumated. This last feeding, I noticed that there is some localized discoloration on...

I'm about to undertake my first ever snake rescue/ assist feed. And I'm terrified. One of Chili's babies, the one my son's friend adopted, is not...

so right before winter hit i got my hands on a young garter some kid ran over with his bike, i worked with this little guy for weeks helping him...

the two arrows point to the punctures... though now you can really barely see them, this is what they look like now. and this is the area a little...

my little garter was recently apprehended by my cat unfortunately and chewed up a bit. it was the most traumatic thing for me EVER. It sounds silly...