UPDATE on Mr. Loopy
I know I don't post to much around here anymore, but I do still check in just about daily. I've gotten a few PM's here and there asking me about Mr. Loopy. Some from new owners to spiders with the wobbles to long time members just checking up to see how he is doing and seeing if he is still around.
If you don't know who Loopy is or why he is named that, please do a search for "Loopy" or go back in to to some of the post I made over a year ago. Long story short, Loopy is a het pied ball python who hatched out of his egg with some major neurological problems that mimic IBD. He was doomed to have a freezer nap while I was working at the breeders place that produced him due to his problems and him not being a good feeder. I stepped in and got him feeding decent and took on trying to give him as much as a normal life as he could ever have due to his disabilities. I know some months back he went thru a really bad fall back with his problems that I lost many nights of sleep over trying to decide if I should put him down or give a go with the meds my vet had given me for him. He eventually got "better" but still I do not know if he did it on his own or if the Baytril did help him any since it took a while.
As of today if you got to see Loopy in person and didn't know of his problems, you would think he was just a normal BP. I'd say about 80% of the time he doesn't "loop, spin, wobble" unless he gets spooked or stressed by not being handled correctly. He has learned that if he moves slow and takes his time with moving his head and body he won't go in to a spinning looping fit as I call them. Also he has learned how to turn himself over. Sometimes it takes him a minute or two to figure it out, but most of the time he can upright himself almost right away which is just awesome because he could not do that up till about 4-5 months ago.
Here is a short clip of him when he was only a few months old:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t=P1050029.flv
Here he is over the weekend (he turned two years old on 7-20-08:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t=DSCN1577.flv (Quality is NOT good~Photobucket dubbed the quality on it)
HERE is the RAW copy of the video (WARNING 33mbs)
http://willowdaisy.com/DSCN1577.AVI
I will post a short video of him in a few of him being able to flip himself.
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