2010 Ranch Rescue Season

[guidofatherof5]

After arriving home this evening my son handed me an empty pickle jar. Inside I found a great looking male orange phase radix. He'll be heading to the Vet. tomorrow for a little surgery.
He has a prolapsed hemipenis. It's dried out and will need to be removed via Laser scalpel. I'll get a few photos in the morning and post. I think I'll even get some video from the Vet's Office.

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a photo of this little guy's problem. I'm sure if he were still in the wild it would eventually drop off.
I thought about clipping it of myself but did want to deal with a large blood lose.
The laser will cauterize the blood vessels and prevent that.

[prattypus]

holy moley!

[guidofatherof5]

With no Vet. available until Monday I decided to take care of this on my own. Using a pair of surgical scissors I clipped the hemipenis off. I left a small amount of dead tissue so I wouldn't have to deal with him losing any blood.
Worked like a charm. The patient is resting in a shed box. He felt very dry so I thought a little sauna time would be good for him.

[Tyrel26]

if i am reincarnated as a snake i know where im going....lol

[gregmonsta]

Glad the procedure went well for you

[ConcinusMan]

Once it's all dried out like that, I've had no problems clipping it off myself. It's no biggie. Only one of the times I did it resulted in significant bleeding. A little powdered alum took care of that really quick. The little bit still hanging there comes off in one or two sheds.

[guidofatherof5]

I got a call from a lady today. She said she had a big snake in her side yard and wanted it gone. She didn't live too far away so I drove to her house. Once I arrived it was easy to see how she created her own problem. She had a 4x8 piece of plywood laying in her yard. Talk about advertising for garter snakes to come and live there.
I lifted the board and found a rather large male radix hiding. He was easy to catch as it was still cool at that time of the morning. He was pretty beat up but in overall good health. I took him home and released him under my deck with the rest of the wild ones.

[guidofatherof5]

After church my kids and I went to the x in-laws for lunch. I have a great relationship with both of them. I even call them Mom and Dad. It's a blessing.
While there I was sent to do a snake sweep of a couple houses. Seems when non snake people see me they want me to remove the horrible killing machine garter snakes. I can't turn them down as it means a death sentence to the snakes if I don't take them. It was a cold day here so I knew they would be under cover. I found 3 young snakes from last years and 1 adult female. All great looking dark phase. The big female had a couple of bad looking scutes on her belly and neck area. While checking them over I found that she needed to shed. Once I got her started it came off rather quickly. That was all she needed to do to repair those scutes. All 4 are resting comfortably and will stay for a few days. They will be released in my back yard after the weather warms up.

[drache]

nice rescues