2 headed ball python eating

:( I think I would have killed that snake right out of the egg. But since you're keeping it, good luck caring for it and hopefully it grows up healthy for you.

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Originally Posted by stratus_020202

Awww. I hope he grows healthy. Do you think the right one is still hungry? I wonder if they had any trouble feeding.

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only time will tell about him!
he's a FIRST.. hehehe

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

:( I think I would have killed that snake right out of the egg. But since you're keeping it, good luck caring for it and hopefully it grows up healthy for you.

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I was thinking the same, but I just gave him a chance and he seems telling me... "I wanna live!!!"

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Originally Posted by Quality_Snakes

I was thinking the same, but I just gave him a chance and he seems telling me... "I wanna live!!!"

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Well if he is eating and thriving then you're lucky. Good luck :gj:

It would be a hard decision to make, to cull him or not, but I think I'd at least give him a chance.

After all, you see other animals with two heads that survive quite well.

Gale

wow thats the first 2 headed snake i've ever seen. i would have one of the heads surgically removed by a reptile veterinarian then continue on with feeding & caring for it. but thats just me. good luck with your snake.

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Originally Posted by Quality_Snakes

feeding one head is enough!

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I would be careful, I have a friend who hatched a two headed bearded dragon several years ago. One head ate fine and it even started growing and getting bigger. Then the other head ate and it was dead the next day.

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Originally Posted by mommanessy247

wow thats the first 2 headed snake i've ever seen. i would have one of the heads surgically removed by a reptile veterinarian then continue on with feeding & caring for it.

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Depending on how the heads are "configured," that could be way, WAY easier said than done. Human medicine has a difficult enough time separating many types of conjoined human twins, and they have the advantage of all kinds of life support systems, etc., that often aren't available for mammalian veterinary patients let alone compatible with reptiles. The surgery to separate conjoined twins can often be a 6+ hour job, involving multiple skilled surgeons. (In human patients ... Come to think of it I haven't heard of it ever being performed on a veterinary patient, though that certainly doesn't mean it's never been done.)

If it seems to be suffering in its current state, I think euthanasia would be a much more humane option than trying to put the poor thing through surgery.

BUT, it seems like it isn't having trouble swallowing or moving on its own ... And I know two-headed herps of other species have survived to live reasonably normal lives ... So to the OP, good luck to you and your critter! (Er ... Critters?)

I'd have a dang hard time not naming it Zaphod. :P

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Originally Posted by Serpent_Nirvana

Human medicine has a difficult enough time separating many types of conjoined human twins, and they have the advantage of all kinds of life support systems, etc., that often aren't available for mammalian veterinary patients let alone compatible with reptiles. The surgery to separate conjoined twins can often be a 6+ hour job, involving multiple skilled surgeons.

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it is considered the most difficult surgery :gj:

-with the lowest success rate

How do both heads not fight over food? If you are feeding one, wouldn't the other sense the food as well? Strange.