my problem is that ive got the chance to...i guess rescue is the rite word...this 10 foot albino burmese from this couple i just met. i went over there to get a critter cage for my bp and i was looking at the cage and glanced at wat was behind it and saw this big cage that looked pretty much empty. well its not, over in the back corner is this super thin, super emaciated albino burm. it had no substrate other then a page of torn of newspaper, and the quart or so sized water bowl that looked like it hadnt had any water in it in weeks.

so i asked them wat was up with it and the guy was telling me how it hadnt actually eaten anything in like 3 months which i sorta know as being kinda normal for a snake. but he then started telling me that it had only eaten a couple times since the start of last winter. now last winter here in iowa was one of the worst we've had in years and they kept him in the basement which gets no heat other then the two lights and a space heater on top of the cage.

then his fiance was saying how theyd like to get rid of him before he dies and i ask how much. they say 175 for him, the homemade cage, which actually was a pretty decent one, the lights and bowl. i thought about it and offered to give them 75 bux next payday and if i can manage to get him back to a semi regular eating habit and he starts to show promise of living past 3 months, that ill give them the other 100. they said that would probably work which i thought was awesome.

but as we were talking a little more i started to think that i only have a limited knowledge of caring for burms let alone a sickly one like this. but i knew i could find out how by asking lots of questions here at bp.net and other forums so i started to feel better about that. then i realized that my landlord mite have a problem with a 10 foot snake here even though she knows that i have a bp.

so wat i need from everyone here is some help on how to go about this. i literally felt sick to my stomach when i saw the condition this snake was in and wanted to take him outta there pronto but theres problems with that. so plz give me some advice on how i should handle this and give this burm a fighting chance. i know he can be a beautiful snake and i want him happy and outta such conditions.

thnx in advance.