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Re: Buggsie's (Ongoing) Road to Recovery - A Rescue Story
You have done an outstanding job with Buggsie I look forward to the Second Month under your care.
Sent from my SGH-T999
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Feeding Video!
"Day 25 - Mite treatment! Little guy gets more wriggly every time!" We're about 3 more weeks from the end of his mite treatment, and I can honestly say I'll be glad when it's over. If a snake could give dirty looks, I get them as soon as poor Buggsie realizes what's going on!
"Day 26 - Weight update and a feeding video!" I thought it was about time we did another video update for Buggsie and as you can see he, he is growing at a fantastic rate! On the first, we do our deep cleaning and switch everyone into pre-cleaned tubs. While Buggsie is still a little on the low end of when we'd up-size weight wise, he's got the length of a snake that needs to be moved out of the 6 qt he's been in. I'm a little hesitant, just because I don't want him to decide that's enough of a change to stop eating, but we'll pack his new, bigger hide with paper towel so he feels snug and if he starts refusing we'll move him back to a 6 qt until he realizes he's outgrown it. :rolleyes: Normally, we move them up between 150 and 200 anyway, so he's just about there. He did fantastic eating today! This is also the first time we've watched him from grab to tail. Because we haven't wanted to disturb him by watching, we've been putting his meals in, then covering him once he's made the grab. I usually check back later to make sure he ate, but leave him to do the eating in privacy. He'll be moved up to pups on his next feeding and Maker willing, will have the strength to do what he needs to. We watch all of our snakes with at least the initial grab and wrap in case the rat ends up in a position where it can try biting, and have a stainless steel pair of feeding tongs at the ready to prevent injury. With Buggsie moving up in prey size, it's good to know that having observers doesn't seem to bother him.
https://youtu.be/_W97IZjk79k
"Day 27 - Urates again! I swear this kid is just full of them!" :O There is no end to the urates! A little bit of brown again, not enough to get a fecal sample yet and no obvious sausage butt after passing the urates so he must be using as much of his little rats as possible. At this point, he has seriously surpassed Blackout as the No Poop record holder. If he looked constipated, I'd be concerned but I think it's still a case of utilizing every bit of his meals as possible.
Enjoy your Buggsie update! Tomorrow is mite treatments again, and I'll see about getting some new pictures. :D
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He's going great! Keep it up SmoothScales, great to have people like you around! :gj:
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Re: Buggsie's (Ongoing) Road to Recovery - A Rescue Story
Thanks for all you are doing for Buggsie! He has made fantastic progress and what a trooper he has been. I see nothing but continued positive growth for him. Physical and mental growth! You should get an award. :gj:
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Re: Buggsie's (Ongoing) Road to Recovery - A Rescue Story
Buggsie! He looks so lively and wriggly! He sure is a trooper! Glad he is doing so well even with the mite treatments. He seems so much more confident to me since he arrived in your care. Keep up the awesome and amazing work! Love your choice of song as well! Nightwish is one of my favorite bands. [emoji13]
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Re: Buggsie's (Ongoing) Road to Recovery - A Rescue Story
You have done a wonderful job with Buggsie Thank you for saving a life.
Sent from my SGH-T999
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buggsie was quick to wrap that pup :gj:
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I'm A Slacker!
I am such a slacker! It's been a while since I've posted an update on little Buggsie, but I do have good news about him!
Since last update, he's had a few more mite treatments - much to his dismay. Still no sign of the little buggers, so his last treatment should be on the 14th. I'm sure he'll be glad about that. :)
He ate his last meal despite being so blue I didn't think he'd be able to find it. Thank goodness pups don't move around very fast. :rofl:23 grams down like a champ! Which tips it slightly over the 15% mark, but not by so much that I would consider a problem.
There's also been lots of urates - this little guy must drink his weight when I'm not looking! He's putting out a urate every other day like clockwork!
Yesterday was Day 32, and little Buggsie had a shed first thing in the morning. You know what usually happens when a snake sheds? That's right, it's usually followed quickly by a shat. Buggsie shat! It only took him 32 days to get there, but we've finally got him to the point he's moving waste through the pipes and out the other end. I literally squealed. :banana: Poop! It's that exciting. At least it is when you've been waiting this long for it. A pretty respectable one, at that. I took pictures. :rolleyes: His shed was in pretty good shape. Both eye caps are there, but the little face part tore away from the rest. :tears: I was hoping he'd get it off all in one piece, but alas! Even with his shed and a shat, he still weighed in at 147 on the 1st. :D Still growing! We need to do a little photo session with little Buggsie and get some updated pics of him to share. I actually stopped by the nameless store he came from yesterday and spoke with one of the employees that remembers him and let her see some of the day 22 photos and I thought she was going to cry.
Now that he's able to take a bit bigger prey, I'm switching Buggsie to a once a week feeding and I gotta say, he looked like he was expecting a rat yesterday after his shed. Little bugger. Now that he's eating good, he's wanting more. :snake2:
Poop! And quite a bit of it.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/z1...=w1284-h963-no
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Re: Buggsie's (Ongoing) Road to Recovery - A Rescue Story
Poor tiny Buggsie - wishing him the best <3 Sounds like he's thriving in your care already.
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