Marnie's Snakes

[EasternGirl]

Thanks. The vet said I will need someone to help me hold her...which is very true, she is a big girl and does not like being held in the first place. This is where it gets interesting because I am the only one in my family that holds the snakes. Thankfully my mother says she will help. She is willing to try to get past her fear for the sake of Cee Cee getting better which means a lot to me. I better make sure we are standing over a couch or something for when she screams and drops Cee Cee though...lol.

[EasternGirl]

Oh...wanted to mention that a friend pointed out to me that humidity should be increased during a respiratory infection not decreased. I was actually wondering about that, as it makes sense...thinking about it...when we have respiratory problems we increase humidity. It was recommended that I put Cee Cee in a shed box and let her sit in the humidity for a while to clear out some of the mucus and stuff...and also to increase the humidity in her enclosure. I already increased the humidity in her enclosure. I will prepare a shed box for her in a little while. Thank you very much to the friend who recommended this.

[angrygamer]

I'm sure you know this, but in case you don't I heard it is good to crank the heat up on the warm side of the viv. I'd say 5 - 10 degrees during an RI.

[EasternGirl]

Yes...thank you...I have been keeping the heat mat and her basking bulb on...and I swapped the 40 watt bulb I usually use for basking with a 60 watt...the thermometer is showing an ambient temp of about 84 on the warm side. Now...do not ask me why I do stupid things sometimes...I don't know. But I got the shed box all ready and I went to put Cee Cee in it...I had the box up on my dining room table. I should have had it on the floor...knowing how she would react...when I went to put her in, she flipped out and jumped out and off the table and fell to the floor and started to slither away...I caught her...but should I worry she may have hurt herself? I put her in the shed box for a little while after that....she hated it of course. But, it was nice and humid in there. Now she is back in her enclosure all freaked out wondering why I am torturing her...poor Ceecers .

[kibakiba]

My babies have fallen from about my chest height, and they were fine. I'm sure she'll be fine.

[angrygamer]

Glyph slithered off my bed once and it was a three foot drop. He seems ok.

[EasternGirl]

Okay...she seems okay. She was flailing all over when she fell of course. I picked her up and ran her through my fingers...she seemed to move alright and didn't have any noticeable injuries. Poor Cee Cee...all this that she is going through and now she has to go back to the vet...she does not like strangers handling her...then she has to get injections. She is so skiddish to begin with...I just hope the stress doesn't make her worse.

[chris-uk]

One of our checkered babies fell from a first floor landing onto laminate floor in the hallway, so about a 3.5 metre drop. She was fine from the drop, I'd like to report that it did her no long term harm but it was Angua and she was our FTT.
I can't imagine a fall from table height will harm a garter unless they fall onto something awkward.

[EasternGirl]

I think she's fine...just went into her enclosure to do a spot clean and she was as fiesty as ever...false striking at my fingers as if to tell me to get the heck out of her home and stop messing things up! She is very restless lately...she is all over her enclosure all the time, climbing the walls and everytime I open it, she is determined to climb out. I will be driving up to the vet tomorrow around 1pm to have them show me how to do the first antibiotic injection and bring the medicine home with me.

[chris-uk]

She's going to be a happy snake when you jab her. Or she may not even notice. Let us know how you get on with the first injection.