Arrrrrg!!!!

Well done for saving her! Btw: I love the pictures, the last one especially looks really cool x

Good for you. It's so hard to walk away.

Think of it this way: When you've gotten her nice and strong again, she can be your daughter's personal pet. In the pictures it looks like she's already taken to her.

The heart always leads the way......................no matter what you think you know is right:cool:

R,
thank you. It means a fair bit coming from you.

Update,
Today was feeding day I had not planned on offering the little one tonight as she has been here for such a short time but on seeing the little nose poking out of her hide I thought why not so I thawed a mouse pinky and offered. After a few moments she struck. I though hey that was quite small even for her and thawed a second one which by the time I got it to her the first was gone, she took it too, and then a third. :D:D:D

I am beginning to think that she might have a fighting chance. I'll get some mouse fuzzes and try her again Thursday night or friday night and see if she will take something a touch bigger. If I can get some weight on her she hopefully will pull though. They are so incredibly resilient! I wish now I had photographed her when she arrived so was awful looking! I few good soaks and now a meal and perhaps in the next few days she will look like a real snake not just a ball python coloured pencil.

Again thank you for all the words of support. I really appreciate them.

Alex

Good for you for getting that baby girl out of that store. :3
I know what it's like to see an animal like that in a petstore and need to take it home.
I felt that way about a bearded dragon in the awful petstore at the mall. :( Seh was all brown, had stress marks, skinny limbs, missing half the tail, had an underbite caused by Metabolic Bone Disease, ect... They wanted $75 for her. e.e
I had heard of her before from both my sisters before, but hadn't actually seen her for myself. I had about $100 from a camera I returned from Christmas and my sister and I pooled our money together and bought her. She's in much better condition now than she was when we got her! :3 It's really awesome to see them gain wait, become better from being ill, and just look so much healthier and more comfortable that they originally did.
Her colours are so much prettier than they were. Her beard/throat when we got her had just a little tiny bit of orange on it. Now,(tomorrow will be 7 months since we got her), her beard is COVERED in orange and yellow and it goes all the way down to her chest, around her shoulders a bit and on her spikes. Her happy colours are bright sandy yellow/tan and blue, with some orange and red in her tail as well.(She's beautiful when we're lucky enough to see her pretty colours. She's often just brown).
It may cost you a lot in the total to get them healthy again(we spent over $200 on fecals alone for her) but it's worth it and makes you feel good, able to say how you rescued a living creature.

....Plus there as a little kid there saying that she wanted to eat poor Riza! We HAD to get her out of there!

So good luck with your little one. I'm sure you'll take great care of her. :3 It's really worth it.

Update,
The little one nick named 'wiggles' (i don't know if that will stay... but for the moment) has eaten two more meals with us and is starting to fill out some. She is still on mouse pinkies as rat pinks are simply too large still... :O and I am waiting for some small mice fuzzys to arrive. She is starting to show strengh and character. The mites are gone, or seem to be anyway. It is beginning to look like she is going to make it. I have a fecal bottle waiting for her...

I was in a similar position when we answered an ad in the paper for boxer puppies - we went to their house to see the pups - I was devastated by the conditions that the pups were kept in.

I wanted to just walk away but I felt that if we could at least save one of them. So we paid big bucks for a flea ridden, wormy, hernia, etc - the list goes on and on.

We got him to a vet right away - had everything treated after spending yet aonther $400 in vet bills but he is now going on two years old and just the most loveable little guy.

Maybe we should have walked away - but just couldn't leave him there - we wouldn't part with him now.

Some people should not be in charge of other living creatures - that is for sure.

I commend you on taking in that little snake and giving him/her a chance at a good life.

Kudos to you.

It always is a tough choice between saving the critters and putting money back into the system or not to... But i think you made the right choice; it's not the snakes fault she was thrown in there :(