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  • 04-01-2004, 02:54 PM
    iceman25
    The poor sweetie!. I put her antibiotics in her water bowl as the doc recomended. As you may know, the tablets smell like rodent. She just tried to constrict and eat the water bowl :lol:
  • 04-01-2004, 02:59 PM
    iceman25
    But seriously, how do I get her to take her medecine? She doesn't seem to wanna take her medecine.https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...10353/help.gif
  • 04-01-2004, 03:09 PM
    JLC
    Can you inject it into a mouse and then feed her the mouse? Of course, that only gets her dosed about once a week or however often she'll eat. How often did the doc say to dose her? Did he give any advice besides putting it in the water? (Which doesn't seem at all like a safe way to give your animal the proper dosage of medicine!)
  • 04-01-2004, 03:13 PM
    iceman25
    I know. Its supposed to be a tablet a day in her water bowl for a week. She got a shot yesterday.
  • 04-01-2004, 03:22 PM
    Smynx
    That seems odd. It doesn't seem like you can be sure that the snake is getting the proper dosage. Our snakes had liquid medicine that we administered orally with a syringe.
  • 04-01-2004, 03:24 PM
    iceman25
    I'm going to go to the Vet again today, and see if I can get the liquid stuff!
  • 04-01-2004, 03:29 PM
    Smulkin
    Heheh yeah that's big fun getting them to open their mouths and swallow it all.
  • 04-01-2004, 03:30 PM
    Marla
    I've never heard of putting meds in the water and counting on their drinking it. Generally it's either oral or sub-cue administration, or occasionally loading prey items.
  • 04-01-2004, 03:35 PM
    JLC
    You might want to give your vet a second thought if that's how he recommended dosing a snake. (Or honestly, any animal for that matter) You have no way of controlling or knowing for sure how much of the medicine is ingested that way. And while bp's WILL go out and drink, I can't imagine that they actually drink enough volume to get a full dose of medicine.
  • 04-01-2004, 03:46 PM
    Marla
    Try www.arav.org for a list of reptile and amphibian vets in your area.
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