Ball Python aborted.

Well, horrible news, she died. She seemed fine yesterday, and this morning as well. Was not sluggish or anything. Drank water, and today I got home and she was dead.
I am assuming that she had infection from the "aborting" or whatever.
This is the first time I have ever had a snake die, and I feel really bad about it. I had called the most knowledgable person around and he had said he had seen this once or twice and that the females were always fine.
If anything new comes up I will post it.
wolfy the bad snake mommy

Wow. So sorry to hear that. Its always terrible when you lose an animal. Hang in there...

I'm so sorry to hear that. :(

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

Well, horrible news, she died. She seemed fine yesterday, and this morning as well. Was not sluggish or anything. Drank water, and today I got home and she was dead.
I am assuming that she had infection from the "aborting" or whatever.
This is the first time I have ever had a snake die, and I feel really bad about it. I had called the most knowledgable person around and he had said he had seen this once or twice and that the females were always fine.
If anything new comes up I will post it.
wolfy the bad snake mommy

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Im very sorry to hear that. And this wasnt your fault, you had no way of telling she was sick or anything so dont be too hard on yourself. Dont call yourself a bad snake mommy because this wasnt your fault.

:( sorry

Oh I'm so sorry. =( /big hug

Out of curiousity, does anyone thing it would be a good idea to have an autopsy one on the corpse to see if she died of anything contagious? Terrible to loose an animal and a breeding female, but worse if it's something that could spread...but I certainly wouldn't trust my opinion.

I thought of that, and called my aunt who works at the vet university. She said the people who could take it would only do it if it was fresh, and they are not in until wedsday and they charge a lot bc they don't WANT to do it.
With the heat in her bin too, it wasn't really pleasant just hours afterwards either. Heat + Humidity + dead reptile = true ickage.
I still feel horrible, especially since she was one of my favorites, and I tended to relaly pamper her. I felt bad that she had a rough start.
Sigh, I know that sooner or later one has to lose one.. but still.
Wolfy :(