HELP! I'm a bad mom :( BURN/SCALE ROT??

[mechnut450]

also make sure he stuff your putting on ( polysporin) not got any pain killer related in it they say it tosic to snakes. I use the papertowels instead of newspaper ( casue he ink can lead to a possible infection as well. )
I say you need ot set a probe on that glass to rpeven it fro mgetting above a set temp .. I seen the rescue ball pythong i picked up tuesday has move all the aspen from the uth also but i have it set so it can't get above 95 degrees. it clicks off and cause anther swtich to click on ( which is a alight to warn me the heats off)

[blackcrystal22]

Snakes have no maternal instinct past hatching. You are not it's Mom.
If you were, you should have let it slither away long ago.
Check out some caresheets and get yourself set up properly.
Your snake will more than likely have another shed soon after the past one if the scales are as damaged as you say they are.
Keep using polysporin, paper towel substrate and keep enclosure clean.
Offer it food and if it refuses then wait a week or until after it's next shed.
-Steven

I'm preetty sure it's a figure of speech.

[starmom]

I'm preetty sure it's a figure of speech.

[OhBalls]

Snakes have no maternal instinct past hatching. You are not it's Mom.

[Sprinkles_Mum]

what a silly comment.

lots of people refer to their pets as their children, and them as their mum, dad etc. that comment made me do a /facepalm

[Crazy4Herps]

I am Mom to my snake and dragon... my babies. Not their genetic mom (obviously), but their adoptive mom.

Captain Penelope-
So glad to hear he's getting better. I had a similar incident with a less-severe burn to my sweet girl, and I felt so guilty!!! Every day when I'd feel the crusted hard scales, I felt soooooo bad! It went away with her next shed though.

[xxstellavega]

oh jeez.. i came on to see if i could find something near as bad as my ball python is. I'm 4 months pregnant and was told not to handle my snake for risk of salmonella... i did more research and realized how rare it is how to keep clean to not infect my snake in the first place. That's when i realized 1/3 of his underbelly is red and what looks like blisters/dried skin. At first i thought it was just because his shed was so bad these last couple times and i noticed his eyes were sunk in-dehydrated. So i put him in a tupperware with about an inch of water for about an hour. the shed came off like nothing and his eyes are filling back in... and i noticed his underbelly yesterday. Everyone was saying bacitracin so i put some on it for now and going to a vet tomorrow. I'm panicking even more now because those pictures are not as nearly as bad as how mine is... :/ i have him on papertowels because he was burrowing through his subtrate and was glass away from heating pad.. for jeez, i don't even know how long.

[jzoot3d]

id recommend dr stahl in fairfax. hes real close to fair oaks mall. GL

[Kaorte]

id recommend dr stahl in fairfax. hes real close to fair oaks mall. GL

If you would read through to posts you would notice this thread is from december of 2008. This issue has since been solved

[BigBlue56]

what a silly comment.

lots of people refer to their pets as their children, and them as their mum, dad etc. that comment made me do a /facepalm

I agree. Silly and uncalled for IMO...

I am my snakes father... whether Apollo realizes it or not is irrelevant. Snakes might not have maternal instincts, but humans sure do.

Good luck with the burn