This is truly a survivor. (also rescued from LIRM)
Meet the large Sumatrin Water Monitor:
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...08/Cnv0276.jpg
It is easy to say that being in the presence of this varanid, you get the same feeling as standing next to a poor elephant that has been mistreated at a zoo for twenty years.
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...08/Cnv0284.jpg
He (or she, still unsexed) is covered in old wounds ranging from scrape marks, to bite wounds from god knows what:
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...08/Cnv0283.jpg
Every day he gets a scrub down externally and due to an extreme resperitory infection and statomitis he also needs oral treatments as well. Here are a few shots of this procedure.
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...08/Cnv0285.jpg His nasal cavities need to be swabbed daily, then irrugated with saline solution.
We also need to secure his mouth at an open angle to insert a perscribed amount of Baytril for his resperitory infection.
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...08/Cnv0288.jpg
We then need to wash his mouth with a Clorahexaderm scrub.
Here is a great shot of his airway
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...08/Cnv0290.jpg
He is already showing breathing improvements, and he is settling into his daily medical routine.
I just thought I would share a few pictures.
Please excuse the many typos, I am exhausted.
Thank you'
Rusty