Tapeworm....

It is possible that an insect crawled into her mouth. Fleas carry tapeworm in their gut. I would be shocked if a tapeworm larvae survived freezing.

Tapeworm comes mostly from rodents who are carrying fleas.

We have no furred pets and I have never seen a flee here. I may have the answer however. I checked a rat from the local supplier and did find a tape worm at least I think that is what it is... light yellow stringy thing in lower intestines no I did not photograph it the whole experience was unpleasant (digging though a rats bowels... :puke2: ) I then did a bit of research and found that it takes 24 hours to kill all cysts of a tapeworm in a freezer so that day I brought home the fresh frozen rats likely is the cause.

Lesion learned wait 24 hours before thawing rodents out, just to be sure. My vet said not to be bothered over half the fecals they have done on snakes showed tapeworms. It is very common apparently. Well I guess I'll have to start saving little bottles of poop... and be doing the 35$ shuffle to the vet.

Ohhh that sucks. Was constipation the only symptom? When I received a colony of leatherback beardys last year that was highly infected with coccidia I was doing that shuffle. I ended up working out a mailing shuffle with my vet and it worked quite well. I send all the samples through the mail they were in enclosed test tube thingys and he'd bill me. It worked great. Hes an hour away from me so getting up there even for an appt had to be carefully planned. Just a thought to help the situation.
Morgan