Mojave Rescue: dehydrated and URI

[PitOnTheProwl]

Great Job

[PweEzy]

Very nice! Not only did you save that snakes life by what you did, but by deciding to take on the task of nurturing it back to health, you managed to pick yourself up a nice looking little mojave! You are living proof, that all it takes is someone that cares to make something right, and to that I salute you!

[NNJExotics]

I didn't post this thread for recognition but rather to give others an insight & hope that respiratory infections can be overcomed with patience, persistence, and of course a vet visit.

Thanks everyone for the kind words and for checking out this post.

[bigblue09]

I didn't post this thread for recognition but rather to give others an insight & hope that respiratory infections can be overcomed with patience, persistence, and of course a vet visit.

Thanks everyone for the kind words and for checking out this post.

my bp has had an RI for a month now and i have been giving her fortaz injections and she still isnt better. going back to the vet thursday to see what to do now . glad to hear he is doing better.

[CoolioTiffany]

He looks to be a very nice looking boy! I'm so glad to hear you took this Mojave into your care, he definitely fell into the right hands. I hope he does well on his road to recovery. Please post updates, I'd love to see how much he improves!

[NNJExotics]

my bp has had an RI for a month now and i have been giving her fortaz injections and she still isnt better. going back to the vet thursday to see what to do now . glad to hear he is doing better.

I spoke to my vet when i initially brought this mojave in about what medication he planned to use. I did my research on several including fortaz, amikacin and baytril. He said he 1st choice was Baytril as it usually nails it in the butt, then the others would be for his 2nd and 3rd choice along with some cultures i believe but our conversation did not go that far. I expressed to him my concern with Baytril and the possibility of making the tissue necrotic from what i read in previous post. He did mention that this was possible but only with the large animal/higher concentration baytril aka as Baytril 100 i believe but he had Baytril Small Animal available. My vet's treatment plan was 4 total injections of Baytril spaced every 3 days. But what might of worked for him, may not work for all.

Good Luck and hope she gets better soon!

[bigblue09]

I spoke to my vet when i initially brought this mojave in about what medication he planned to use. I did my research on several including fortaz, amikacin and baytril. He said he 1st choice was Baytril as it usually nails it in the butt, then the others would be for his 2nd and 3rd choice along with some cultures i believe but our conversation did not go that far. I expressed to him my concern with Baytril and the possibility of making the tissue necrotic. He did mention that this was possible but only with the large animal/higher concentration baytril aka as Baytril 100 i believe. My vet's treatment plan was a 4 total injections of Baytril spaced every 3 days.

Good Luck and hope she gets better soon!

my vet and i talked about baytril and he said that sometimes the infections can be immune to baytril and fortaz is his favorite. he did mention with a lot of cases if one or the other did not work then he would combine them doing like a shot of baytril and a few days later doing a shot of fortaz or something along those lines. the fortaz treatment was a total of 7 shots given every 3 days. im going to see about doing some blood work or a culture so we dont have to do the guessing or trial and error game.

[Simple Man]

Best of luck! That's really cool of you to do. I like his crazy side pattern. I hope be works out for you.

Regards,

B

[saber2th]

Awesome story and awesome looking Mojave! That snake is lucky you looked on Craigslist when you did! Please post some more picts. of him soon!

[NNJExotics]

Hey everyone,
Just wanted to give you all an update on the mojave ball python i took in earlier this year. He is overall in excellent shape and looking great. Took some pictures today of him that i wanted to share with you all.

Javier
NNJExotics