» Site Navigation
0 members and 748 guests
No Members online
Most users ever online was 47,180, 07-16-2025 at 05:30 PM.
» Today's Birthdays
» Stats
Members: 75,904
Threads: 249,099
Posts: 2,572,073
Top Poster: JLC (31,651)
|
-
Registered User
Busch Gardens ball procedure...Very cool!
We were at Busch Gardens, Tampa, yesterday. While watching a hyena diet presentation at the animal care pavilion, we got to watch an unexpected procedure on a ball python. One of their resident balls named Thor (29 yo male) had a hard mass around the cloaca. We got to watch the park vet clear an impacted gland in the surgical suite. They allow you to view the entire surgical suite through a glass front, and have ceiling mounted cameras that give you an up-close view on high def screens. You can even talk to the vet afterwards. As ball python owners ourselves, it was a unique experience.
-
-
Thats sweet! Sounds very interesting.
-
-
Re: Busch Gardens ball procedure...Very cool!
That sounds amazing! Did the little guy pull through?
-
-
Registered User
Re: Busch Gardens ball procedure...Very cool!
Oh yeah, from the way it sounded, it wasn't that serious. The vet likened it to the glands around the anus of a dog that get impacted/blocked sometimes. He pretty much cleared it with pressure around the area and a cotton-tipped swab, and a couple assistants holding him still.
-
-
Registered User
That's some great timing. That would be very Kewl!
Sent from my HTC Glacier using Tapatalk 2
-
-
Re: Busch Gardens ball procedure...Very cool!
 Originally Posted by FireBri
Oh yeah, from the way it sounded, it wasn't that serious. The vet likened it to the glands around the anus of a dog that get impacted/blocked sometimes. He pretty much cleared it with pressure around the area and a cotton-tipped swab, and a couple assistants holding him still.
That's good to hear! I'm glad he's doing better. What a great thing to watch!
-
-
-
-
What a treat! Did it make you want to get into veterinary medicine at all? I have a feeling that it would for me!
Bruce
Top Shelf Herps
1.0 Pastel (Gypsos)
1.0 VPI Axanthic Pinstripe (B-Dub)
1.0 Sable het Hypo (Flat Top)
1.0 Lesser Platinum (Sean2)
1.1 Lemonback (Einstein.Elsa)
0.1 Pied (unnamed)
0.1 Pinstripe het Hypo (Chopper)
0.1 het VPI Axanthic (Vanilla)
0.1 Spider 50% het VPI Axanthic (Serine)
0.1 Hypo (Bella)
0.1 het Hypo (Hooker)
0.1 Cinnamon (Nutmeg)
0.1 Normal (Jane)
-
-
That's so awesome! Sounds like a cool experience and you lucked out.
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk 2
Balls:
*0.1 Mojave *0.1 Pinstripe *0.1 Bumblebee *1.0 Super pastel butter *1.0 Mojave orange ghost *0.3 100% het orange ghosts *0.1 Pastel 50% het orange ghost *1.1 PE Lemonback fires *1.0 Fire *0.1 Pastel *1.0 Albino *0.1 Spider 100% het albino
Other critters:
*1.0 Anery motley corn *G. rosea tarantula *G. pulchripes *P. metallica *0.0.2 A. versicolor *C. cyaneopubescens *A. geniculata *B. smithi *B. boehmei *Nhandu chromatus *H. maculata *C. marshalli *1.0 Australian shepherd mix
-
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
|
Reply With Quote
It was a very cool addition to the park. I wish I would have gotten to see the procedure on Thor though. That's awesome! I did see them look at a coral snake once who had a mass. That was cool. But a ball hits a little closer to home. 
