Two new rescues. *Poss. Disturbing*

The story behind these boas is kind of weird. I contacted the guy looking to purchase his albino burm. He told me it is gone and he just had two boas left. So out of curiosity I asked about them. He said "female is 12 feet and like 85 lbs and the male is 9 feet and about 40 lbs." It didnt sound right to me and as we talked I realized this guy had no idea what he was doing. We worked out a deal where I could come down and pick up some cages as well as the two boas because they needed homes immediately. If not he would "have to kill them." We go down to his house and they are tucked in a back room that was freezing and only had two lights that had 12 and 25 watt bulbs in them. While talking to the guy he told me the burm had died from what he called a RI. I call it neglect. I looked at the big female (that i think is a nicaraguan) and she has the chin of a shed stuck on her, no bedding and the cages havent been cleaned in forever. She also had no water and her nose is rubbed almost raw. I looked at the male, he is definitely not a normal, almost looks like a salmon. But he is very dehydrated and also had no water, no heat and a stuck shed. He turned his head and his nose is completely rubbed off and he was barely moving. His tail was infected nad is now black and has old sheds stuck on it. I am trying my best to provide for these two and bring them back to health. I brought them home, gave them heat, clean cages and fresh water. I also helped the female shed and as it got to her vent I pulled on a piece of shed and pulled about an inch and a half of dead skin out of her vent. Anyway, here are some pics of them. They're in real bad shape, bu improving everyday. Big girl ate as well. If you have any idea what the two of them are please let me know.

Big girl Nemesis - when we got home
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After shed
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Today
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Taken down a meal
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Here's the smaller male. His name is Petri. I am thinking hes a salmon of some sort. PIcs dont do his orange color justice.
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Today after refusing a meal. Just relaxing.
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I hope I can bring them back to health. Any tips or suggestions please let me know. I am always looking for help.

Aint Rescue fun :) I got a Boa from the shelter a few weeks ago, solid six feet and 6.6 lbs....SKINNY, but otherwise healthy. I soak my hurt ones in a water collodial silver solution, and when I mist them and their tanks I use the same collodial silver solution. I do not let them drink it, or offer it as a drink because I am not sure if it would hurt the intestinal flora and digestibility of the gut. I inject prey items with b 12 b complex and stuff a childrens vitamin in the mouth of the rodent and if I must feed live I give the rodent a gummy childrens vitamin right before I give them to the snake. Antibiotic ointment on the open wounds can help keep infection down as well. Offer good hiding places to reduce stress. Other than that what you are doing is what I do. Good luck and I hope they do well.

*Fila*

I don't really know what to say other than I wish you the very best of luck and I hope you have them on strict QT from your other snakes if you have any.

The male is pretty adorable past all the scabs.

Thanks. Yeah he is an awesome looking snake. I cannot wait to get him back to being healthy and eating and breed him. I am still not sure EXACTLY what he is but he should make some good babies later in life.

Poor babies, how could someone let that happen.... :(

:tears: Poor babies!!! I'm so glad they found someone to love them and care for them! Good luck and I hope to hear a wonderful update soon.

Wow I am amazed at how people can let their animals get to this point. You don't have to know anything about reptiles to see that something is wrong with these two.

To the OP I'm glad that you have taken them in and I hope that they make a full recovery for you.

**sigh** When I see snakes in this condition and hear about the terrible ways they were being kept, I wonder how the poor things even survived to the point they are found in when rescued. They must just have a will to live and refuse to give up.

I commend you and everyone else who finds and takes in a rescue. I firmly believe that anyone who saves any living thing from misery and just gives it a good home and good care has done an amazing act of kindness. It doesn't matter if it is a snake, a kitten, or a child, everything living deserves to live comfortably with the care needed to thrive.

Keep up the good work. With a little TLC, those poor little noses should heal up and your two new additions will be well on their way to finally being happy, healthy snakes.

Aww! Poor babies! I am so happy that you took them in. They are both really beautiful Boas. Keep us posted on there progress:)

Good luck with them.

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Poor things! I'm so glad you took them in. Can't wait to see the pics when they're are both healed up and happy.

Awww poor babies!! That makes me so MAD :rage: It's because of idiots like THAT that don't give a crap about the animals they keep why all these frickin' bans are happening! UGH....


Anyways, good luck with them, they have some serious potential. They will be beautiful even with scars, and I'm so relieved you saved them from that hellhole. :gj: I wish them a speedy recovery :please:

Thanks guys. I too am amazed they made it this far. And they are both so loving and just enjoy being handled. I have been checking on them every few hours and using neosporin on the wounds to try and have them heal up nice. I will continue to update this thread as they get back to being healthy. Hopefully next breeding season I will be able to use this gorgeous male to breed with my columbian. Until then it is just TLC and constant watching.

Thank you for taking in those poor babies. It breaks my heart to see any animal in such a state of neglect. What is wrong with people?

I look forward to seeing updates on these guys.

Good news. Bet appointment scheduled. We're taking both in for a once over. According to the vet the tip of the males tail is going to be amputated. Well see how that goes. I can't wait to get him on some meds and eating.

So after about a 300 dollar vet visit we have good and bad news. The female is healthy just has a bad case of mites. Which I figured. The male is much worse. Top of jaw is broken, tip of his tail is infected and going to fall off on its on. Respiratory infection and he has mites. We have to inject him with needles and two meds down his throat and soak him in the tub 30 min a day in bedadine to get ridnofnmites same for the female. The vet seems to think hell be ok and hope to get him to eat by Saturday. Going to try a few different food items. Good thing I have these two on strict qt. but all is looking up for the little guy. I'll keep you guys updated.

I would call cops and aspca on that pos you got them from

Those poor, poor babies!!! I'm glad to hear that your girlie is turning around and I sincerely hope Mr. Petri does the same. And "broken jaw"?!?!?! How the hell did he get a broken jaw? Poor dude. :mad::tears:

He rubbed his face down to the bone. I think the guy abused him. It scares me but she said it is definitely broken. And because their jaws are so loose she said we just have to let it I and give him some pain meds. God I hope he eats this Saturday.

so glad they are in your hands now this breaks my heart..

and PS colloidal silver not safe

Poor babies i am so glad they found you...hopefully they will make a great recovery!

I'm so glad you got those poor babies to somewhere safe and warm where they'll be loved and cared for.

*Totally wants to punch the guy who had them last. In the unmentionables*

THanks for the kind words guys. Started the soaks with them. A ton of mites came off the male and the female. I soaked 15 minutes in normal water and 15 in the betadine solution. He loved the soaks and probably feels a lot better now. Well take some pics tonight to show his nose healing up. The big girl loves her heat tape side of her cage. Plus I am building new cages this weekend. I also order some Provent a mite. I will kill this infestation one way or another. Hope the boy eats this weekend.

Thanks for posting this thread, it's heartwarming to see these two being taken care of after all that abuse. Excited to see the new pics. :)

Wow, so glad those snakes found you! I'm glad that they're doing well and responding to care, can't wait to see some more pics once they're back at full health!

Also I want to agree with your thought that the girl may be a Nicaraguan, her face/head look almost exactly like my friend's rescued Nic (minus the mild deformation caused by seriously terrible mouth rot). Once your male perks up and sheds it'll probably be easier to guess him, but I definitely agree that he's probably not a normal.

Ugh, people who get snakes just because they're "macho"... :rage: I wish they would just stick to their motorcycles and whatnot! I'm so glad you were able to save these two... looks like that male needs some serious care. I'm also really glad you didn't have to pay him to get them - it always feels to me like people think it's okay to keep them in that condition, since they made some money off the animals...
I'm feeling happy for them now, though, that you got them.

Thanks guys. I realy hope the male pulls through and katma gets the guy whi had them. Im going to get some pest strips this weekend. I'm waiting to hear back about my cage supplies so I can build the new cages and waiting in my PAM to get here. I'll take some new pics tonight after I try to feed the little man. Big girl ate last night surprisingly. And she aggressively ate which is a good sign.

NEW DEVELOPEMENT!
The Male (Petri) ate tonight! It was a small rat, not what he should be eating but with a broken jaw I had to give him something small. I left it in the cage with him for a little bit and he took it down like a champ. I am so happy he ate. I have the follow up appointment on tuesday for him. I'm excited to see him put weight back on. As for big mama (Nemesis) she ate on saturday with the rest of my collection. She hit the rat hard. Feels so good seeing these two start to turn around. :)

Glad you saved them they looked horrible!

People like the dude that had these poor snakes before you should be treated like he treated them. Lets see if he likes to be starved and freezing and living in filth.

You are an angel for taking them in and caring for them. I can't wait to see them glowing with health for you :)

Yay!!! I'm glad his doing better. They are lucky to have found you.

THanks guys. Got my PAM and used it on his cage last night. I could already see dead mites all over his newspaper. I cannot wait for him to not have mites fall off of him in the bathtub anymore. Im excited for his recovery. Today is his follow up. Ill keep this updated.

More good news. Took Petri to the vet yesterday and she was impressed. The infection in his mouth and tail are going away and the bare bone in his face is getting covered up. I now have to put ointment on his face daily but his pain meds do not need to be used anymore. He still needs to soak about twice a week or so. Things are def looking up. I cannot wait for them to both get over the mites so I can move them into my snake room.

Yay! Yay! Yay! This sure is a feel good story. <3

And I thought I was bad when my humidity dropped to 45% for a few days when I got my BP...

Glad to see they are doing well, beautiful snakes. How did they take to handling?

They have no issue with handling. Big girl would give out a faint hiss but never had an issue. Little man loves being handled. As long as we don't give him his meds haha

More good news. I will hopefully get some pics tonight. The male is doing much better and his nose is beginning to heal. Big girl is still just being herself. I'm moving the male into a different cage so he is not able to rub his face on wire. But thanks for all the comments. We're finishing his meds soon, let's hope this RI disappears

I love that this story is having a happy ending! I have teared up reading this post, animal cruelty of any kind really gets to me. I am so glad that everything is slowly improving and that from the minute you took these snakes home, their misery began to ease. You are a saint, my friend. Just keep doing what you do.

It's so great that the snakes are doing so much better under your care. Hope their recovery continues. That previous situation they were in sounds like it was absolutely horrible.

Thanks for doing this, keep us updated.

More good news. I know I haven't posted in forever but it's the busy time of year for me. Petri is doing well. He's down to just Fortaz every three days. He had shed the other day and the tip of his tail had fallen off. Over the past few days ive been doing cleaning and ointment and it's healing well. His face is doing good too. He also ate again. I gave him a large rat and small and left him alone. He ate the small and did nothing with the large so I hope to move him up to mediums soon. The female is doing great and so far we think we have beat the mites. Anyway, here's some pics. Enjoy.http://img.tapatalk.com/addaf4b8-fc45-b2a6.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/addaf4b8-fc55-6cfa.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/addaf4b8-fc64-c154.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/addaf4b8-fc73-747d.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/addaf4b8-fc81-faf8.jpg

Karma takes care of everyone so it wont be long till the former owner is rotting in Hell :)

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Wow, Im glad they are doing better, thats rediculous that that guy let them get that bad. You can see mites, and there poop in the very first picture of the girl thats horrible.

As far as the male being a salmon, I would say no but it is a very pretty boa.

How anyone can let any animal get in that kind of condition is beyond me. Glad to see the pair are doing well as they are feeling like a million bucks right now i bet. That pam should take out those mites in no time. Just make sure you spray there enclosures once a month an you should never have to worry about them again. :gj:

Thanks guys. A mini update tidy, Petri ate again last night and even got aggressive about it which is good. He came after the rat which he has never done. Nemesis is still just a big baby and is going into shed again. I'll try to take both out. BTW petris infected area of his tale had fallen off with his shed and is growing back well. I'll grab pics of that tonight as well.

Fed both of them tonight. Little man ate a large rat and he struck at it and coiled. First time he's done that. Big girl ate as well. Anyway here's some pics.http://img.tapatalk.com/addaf4b8-65aa-38ba.jpg<br />
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Here's big girl<br />
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It's so great that they are doing well. Poor Petri has had a long, hard road.

Just a little update, Petri is doing fantastic and his face has healed most of the way. We fed him a couple large rats last night (another snake wouldn't eat) and he just pigged out. Good to see him actually having a lump in his stomach. I'll take some pics of him tonight.
As for big girl, I think she has an RI still. Lots of flem and mucus when she eats and opens her mouth. Shell be next to the vet. But she's eating strong and handling well, even of she hisses a little bit haha

I'll grab some pics tonight. I'm do happy they're dojng do much better.

I am excited to hear that they are getting well ;). Can't wait for the pictures XD

:D Those boas must love you, the poor condition those cuties were in!

Yay! Update time! Haha
It's been awhile but the two cuties have been doing phenomenal. Especially the male Petri. He shed again tonight and actually got upset with me cause I disturbed him to put new paper in his tank. Now that he's doing better in going to be building him a 6x2x2 to put him in considering he has been in undersized tanks since we got him. Anyway here are some pics taken about 25 minutes ago of him.

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His nose is healing up well.
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Don't mind the exposed flex watt, I moved newspaper back over it and it's regulated ;-)
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Here are some pics of big momma Nemesis, she still hisses some when coming out of the cage but she's very curious whenever someone comes to her door.
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I had some more of her but I guess I didn't save them.

Anyway, they're doing great and still shedding which is good to see. Can't wait to weigh Petri this weekend. Thanks for looking.