Leonardo is sick, swelling/bleeding...

Well that sounds... Promising...? I hope. :/

Good luck....hope all goes well..

How's the little guy doing after the vet appointment? Has he enjoyed his missed dinner?

Hopefully the bloodwork will reveal something that's treatable.

He gobbled up his rat pups with a quickness. He's still acting like his normal goofy self, and the swelling is down for the moment.

Yes, I am hoping for that as well. I don't even want to think about the possibility the other way...I have a meeting in the morning at 8, so hopefully Dr.Bruce calls sometime after that. I am anxiously awaiting tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by RoseyReps

He gobbled up his rat pups with a quickness. He's still acting like his normal goofy self, and the swelling is down for the moment.

Yes, I am hoping for that as well. I don't even want to think about the possibility the other way...I have a meeting in the morning at 8, so hopefully Dr.Bruce calls sometime after that. I am anxiously awaiting tomorrow.

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I'm glad he still has his appetite!

Hoping it's a quick cure kinda deal. Poor little guy. Thanks for posting because I'm sure others, and maybe even myself, might need this some day.

A ball pythons head and mouth are the most sensitive areas of their body's. As such the least little thing will cause an abscess/infection, You feed F/T but that doesn't mean that in the eating process some slight damage didn't happen. A simple scratch inside the mouth even from a dead rodent's tooth or toe nail is more that enough to allow bacteria to settle in and reek havoc. I've seen this only twice in my years of keeping and breeding, one time the abscess ruptured the snake healed and all was fine. The second time I spent 2 months treating with a regiment of alternating Baytril and Forataz in the end nothing was able to fully heal the animal and we lost it.

My suggesting would be this..Feed smaller meals and about half as often the less stress and work damaged area is having to do to heal the better. Second if you haven't already get injectable antibiotics, snakes metabolisms are so slow that oral treatments almost never work for more serious issues, that coupled with the fact that the stress involved in giving them is just as bad to the animal as the injury. Third, your snake is off limits to handling, videos, pictures, show and tell or even the morning stroll while you're having your coffee. Your snake needs to focus all it's energy on healing. Lastly bump up your temps just a few degrees over your normal keeping temps, as cold blooded critters snakes use the extra warmth to help speed things like digestion and antibody product up, Heat = Bio - fuel

Please let us know how it turns out.

Hoping for good news tomorrow!

I hope all goes well! I wonder if the vet is thinking some sort of toxilogical/farmalogical effect? Please keep us all posted. Best of luck!

:/ Good luck! Keep us posted.

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