Rescue: Reticulated Python

New retic in to Rusty Reptiles
was abandond in early January, and was just found yesturday.
It is approximatly 9 feet and weighs in at a whopping 8 lbs.
poor thing was locked in a twenty gallon aquarium, with no water or food for that above period of time.
Doing good today, besides being underweight, it is surprisingly ok. seems to already be cheering up with a nice shed overnight, and a few strikes at the walls of it's new enclosure. I have a feeling it must enjoy stretching out.
I will post pictures shortly.
Sincerely
Rusty

ARGH!!

Never ceases to really get under my skin that this happens all too often with the retics and burms :(

Kudos on befriending another castaway!

(and yes pics pics of course :P)

Rusty - you are the greatest! I think it's best that I focus on how awesome it is that you exist to take these poor creatures in .. then the fact that we need people like you because so many people abandon pets.... because if I focused on these people that abandon animals.... well.. someone could get hurt.

Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. It's horrible that people do that to any animals. Best of luck to you with it, Rusty. Keep up the outstanding work your doing.

I just don't understand how a person could treat an animal that way. It just makes no sense. At the very least they could drop it off at the zoo or animal control who would call in a reptile rescue, and it wouldn't have to suffer for so long. I'd like to see the people stuffed in a tiny tank without food or water that long! I am sure that it will do fine in your capable hands, though, Rusty. Thanks for doing what you do.

Rusty you are amazing. Thank God for you and all that you do for these wonderful animals. Keep up the great work!!! Again you are absolutely amazing.

9 feet, and only 8 lbs. poor thing! Still waiting on those pictures Rusty, and much respect to you for the work you do rescuing animals. I used to think it would be cool to rescue herps etc... cuz then you would always have some and you could keep the ones you wanted. Fact of the matter is though that it must be quite stressful and hurt a bit since you have to frequently see them come in suffering from long periods of abuse or neglect. Good luck to you and the new rescue.

Hi all, thanks for the support,
I still don't have any dang pictures, s / he has already come out for her daily check, and I don't want to stress her just to take pictures of her, so I promise to snap some over the next couple of days.
Thanks again
Rusty

Thanks for all you do. The reptile world is lucky to have you!

Er aren't reticulated pythons the biggest snake in the world able to reach up to 35 feet in length?