Hi Guys
Hope you had a good holiday and all yours are doing well
When I took my adult corn to the vet for her checkup the vet said there was two types of bacteria found in the bloodworks and that it would be better to switch to a different antibiotic (she was on injectable baytril) because although the baytril was dealing with one of the bacteria the other wouldn't respond to it. So she's now on a 3-week course of Septrin Paediatric Syrup (0.5 ml per day) - to be given orally I'm finding this a bit tricky - and today I have to do it on my own (all my little helpers are out) so I'm wondering what is the easiest way to open a snake's mouth to get the tube down? When I had someone to hold her I kind of stroked under her chin area to get it open a bit but I'm scared of hurting her.
The other thing I found when searching for this on the forum was that it's best not to feed during treatment - however, as she's a rescue I don't think she had much food previously - plus I wasn't aware she shouldn't be fed during antibiotic treatment and she had a couple of mice which she wolfed down a couple of days ago. Would it be best now not to give her any more food until her 3 week course is finished?