I recently made fliers for helping with snake setup (enclosures, heats, humidity, and general care) I'm also offering sexing (small fee) and whatever else I can do to help people locally with their snakes. I've done a few rescues and didn't like what I saw so I figure if I can help people understand how to care for the animal properly I can give the snakes a better life and there will be less rescues.

I went on my 1st call last night. The guy wanted to sex the snake and had some questions about markings on his body. He thought that the snakes skin had torn away on the tail during the last shed, I found an recently open wound on the tail tip. I investegated further to find pinking belly for about a foot. Then I noticed he had a heat lamp and had doubled the UTH"s on the tank bottom with no t-stat or controls. I had him shut down the UTH's and told him that these are burns. There aren't very bad and I can treat them. So today I'm going over to help him clean out the tank and reset it up properly. I'm going to use newspaper until the burns look better. Oh yah it also sexed as male. He's about 800-900g, very thick and has a great disposition.

The charge for this service? Nothing because this guy really cares about this animal and you can tell he is really concerned about him and is willing to do what it takes to make him better.

So I will help with the tank setup give him a caresheet and info on treating the burns and hopefully we will have happy snake!