What do my wondering eyes stumble upon at my friend's pet store? Two horribly neglected BPs. She bought them along with a huge reptile tank from a moron who was grossly neglecting them. Both have horribly retained skin, and the male has two retained eyecaps.
The female, I swear, is skin and bones. Her stomach is almost completely hollow. I swear I started crying when I saw her. The male was not as bad off, but both of them were riddled with more ticks than I could believe.
I coached her on what to do.. she has soaked them and got most of the skin off. The male actually took two sm. rats on his own, but the female, my friend ended up forcefeeding. I didnt think she should, but I watched as she pried the snake's jaws open and put the sm. rat about halfway in. Then an amazing thing happened; the female started swallowing on her own.
Both of them are doing pretty well after a few days!