You did what!

[guidofatherof5]

I thought a good thread would be all the crazy things we've done in the name and for the sake of our snakes. Here's mine.

I recently started a thread with regards to one of my snakes having a "crusty vent". I didn't go into detail about the treatment, well.

I wake up to the wonderful task of rubbing cream on the little scrubs butt and then again before I go to bed. Nice!

Just to let you know I use Silver Sulfadiazine 1% cream. I had my Vet. phone in a prescription to our local Sam's Club. The 50 grams of cream is on the $4 list of medications. Great stuff to have around for those injuries or infections these guys can sometimes get.
Now, it's your turn.

YOU DID WHAT?

[Charlet_2007]

Well i made the rabbit dance for izzy not only did i get a look from her that was you got to be kidding me? but also the look of go to h-e-double hockey-sticks as well as her going to far side of her cage lol all the while my husband snorting in laughter at me behind me..

Might have not helped that when i saw her not taking the rabbit i then did the robot with the rabbit for her which i think that's why i got the go to **** look from her lmao.. and her going to the far side of the cage..

[infernalis]

Administer oral antibiotics to Sky, Our Puget sound garter snake.

First I would give him a minnow to chomp down on, then squirt the meds into his mouth through the gap created by clamping down on the fish.

He was a real sport about this, and never musked me once

[guidofatherof5]

Then there was time time I spent 4.5 hours in my backyard and the neighbors backyards looking for a lost Radix during a thunderstorm and tornado warning. Got wet but found the snake.

[infernalis]

Now that was as close to a "miraculous" recovery of a lost garter ever told.

It's one thing to find them while still confined to the house, another thing altogether to find one under those circumstances.!!

OK I have told this one before, but here goes again...

When we first found Xena my Dekayi (favourite) queen and goddess, she seemed lonely, so I found her a friend.

As fate would have it, Speedy turned out to be a male, and Xena a female... at the time I didn't know the difference, nor really cared.

Well a few months later Xena delivered a batch of babies right before my eyes! oh I shall never forget that day....

Anyhow one of the babies was trapped in it's birthing membrane, had wrote it off as "stillborn" but wait, this "dead" baby is moving.

I ran to the cupboard and grabbed a toothpick, used it to peel away the membrane, and as soon as the little scrub got his first breath of air he started flicking his tongue as if to say "thank you"

I kept him for two years, until he passed away from the deformity that should have caused his demise that day.

He had a restriction in his neck, and could only eat very tiny portions of food, He damn near choked on me once, but Dorothy saved him that time.

Thankfully with all that effort little "Speedy Junior" got nearly 2 years of life that was never meant to be.

Here is the goodbye thread.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gart...mbs-today.html

[guidofatherof5]

Wayne, The snake was our girl Lucky. When I found her she was cold and wet. She looked at me like "where have you been, take me inside. This sucks!" That's why we call her "Lucky"

[infernalis]

I was going to ask if it was "Lucky"

[jitami]

She looked at me like "where have you been, take me inside. This sucks!"

Too cute! I think the weirdest(or at least I thought so at the time) thing I've done was treating Sly for mites. He was a yearling, maybe 12-14 inches, and I didn't want to use poison on him. Mind you I had never had a snake before, hubby never liked snakes, and the kids were too young to handle this.... I'm convinced it's how Sly became "my" snake instead of theirs. So I didn't want to use poison on a young one and decided to do the olive oil thing. Every other day for weeks Sly got a nice long olive oil massage and bath Now I'm raising stupid fish... not because my snakes won't eat anything else... just cause I think it's nice to let them fish for their food every once in a while

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a look at the cream I was taking about. Great investment for $4. Better yet ask your Vet for a small amount. Probably give you some for free.

[guidofatherof5]

Tami, I'm sure they appreciate it. Love to watch them go fishing! It's a thing of beauty