I got my ball pythons in to my exotics vet and they're gorgeous and marvelous, healthy weights, excellent sheds, the works. Yay!

Unfortunately, their follow-up fecal revealed pinworms (ick). I just ran them through a cycle of dewormer -- panacur, I think? -- and that was... well, difficult. I went in, snakes in hand (okay, in bags) to my vet, and she showed me how to get their little mouths open and shoot the wormer down their throats, but man-oh-man were they ever resistant!

We're awaiting the next appearance of snake poo with bated breath so we can run the fecals again and see if we need another course of dewormer. Since pinworms are, according to my vet, notoriously difficult to get rid of I foresee more medication in my future.

So, my question is, is the method I'm using (pry mouths open gently with syringe and then shoot meds down) the best, or is there another method that could work? I've heard of injecting their food with the dewormer, and feeding them 3 tiny meals 3 days in a row but I'm not sure how well they'd take it.

Any voices of experience, I'm all ears y'all. Because I'd rather medicate almost anything again than attempt deworming the snakes. The only worse animal in my house to medicate is my lone girl cat...