Marnie's Snakes

[EasternGirl]

Okay, well Cee Cee ate...so that is a good sign. I have to feed her in her dish all the time now because she literally lunges and bites at my fingers everytime I put them in her enclosure now because she thinks they're food...and her biting is getting more aggressive, she used to just false strike...now she opens her mouth and lunges at my fingers and takes a chomp in the air at them. This all started when I started feeding her with hemostats. She now associates my fingers with food. She was going crazy trying to bite me when I was putting the paper towels down so that I could put her dish in her tank tonight. And then when she was done eating, I had to play "dodge Cee Cee" trying to get her dish back out of the tank. If I pick her up, she stops the biting attempts...she just does it if she sees my fingers entering her tank. I told her this crap has got to stop...she has to go to the vet on Saturday and she better not start biting the vet...lol. I'm hoping that if I continue feeding her on a dish again, she will eventually forget the association between my fingers and food and cut the crap. She seemed okay tonight as far as the breathing goes...she ate all of her food and slithered around for a while and then went to sleep in her slim jim can.

[guidofatherof5]

Sounds good.

[EasternGirl]

So tomorrow I take Cee Cee and Seeley to the vet...I will put them in a little plastic container that I have to take them...they will be very unhappy and nervous...but they need to go. I was wondering since it is so cold outside, is there something I can do to try to keep them warmer for the trip?

[acovert]

In Montana it was regularly in the single digits and snowing, so when I had to transport Cuddles I would heat up my car first and then rush him out to the car. I had to wrap the cage in blankets to take him out so that my Resident Supervisor wouldn't see him. That seemed to keep the heat in the cage while I brought him outside. Once we were in the car the heat was stable.

[mikem]

just warm up the car. should be fine. if you think you'll need more heat, toss a washcloth or two into the dryer and heat it up a few minutes. becareful though that they don't get too hot. put that in the container with them. but, really, having a warm car should be plenty

[EasternGirl]

I went out and bought a couple of those hand warmer heat packs that breeders use for shipping snakes. I figure I'll put a couple of those under the substrate in the travel container...or wrap them in a washcloth and put them on top of the substrate for them to lie against. I've been trying to keep Cee Cee warm since she may have a respiratory infection.

[mikem]

how'd the vet trip go?

[EasternGirl]

Oh...sorry..I should have posted here..I posted in the Oh So Quiet thread...I had to postpone the vet trip because it snowed here. The appointment has been changed to Tuesday afternoon. Cee Cee is doing well. I haven't seen anymore signs of a respiratory infection...she hasn't made any wheezing sounds since the other day, and I have been keeping her heat up and her humidity down. Although, this is something that comes and goes with her...so I definitely want to get her checked anyway. My concern at the moment is Seeley...I have noticed over the last week that he is really showing signs of malnutrition...he went for months without eating for some reason, and what little I have been able to get him to eat...he will only eat fish fillet...so not only am I concerned about anorexia at this point, but I am sure he is vitamin deficient as well. He did start eating a little fish again the other day...but he is looking very thin at this point. I am hoping the vet can figure out why he is not eating and perhaps give me some multivitamins for him. I worry that I may have to start tube feeding him...especially if I have to put vitamin powder on his food, because he always seems to smell it and refuses food with supplement on it. I am going to go now and make some of Wayne's garter goulash...see if I can get him to eat.

[EasternGirl]

I'm very happy right now because Seeley ate a whole dish of garter goulash...minus the reptomin...I forgot to put that in, so it was just salmon and pinky...but he ate...and he ate pinky, which means he got some calcium and vitamins that he really needed! I'm going to start offering him fish and pinky mix every other day until he plumps up some. I'll probably throw some worms in the mix too. Hermes ate too...but that is no big news. Cee Cee doesn't get fed again until tomorrow. Maybe I should wait and feed her until after the vet trip on Tues...yep...I better wait so she has time to digest her food. She just ate a couple of days ago.

[guidofatherof5]

Nice going Seeley.
Pound down the groceries boy.