Quote Originally Posted by mpkeelee View Post
How is the treatment going? Any luck getting the pill in the rat? I hope everything works out and it clears up soon. Is this type of tapeworm specific to certain animals or is any living animal subject to invasion?
I tried to give her a pill stuffed rat on Sunday, but she wasn't interested because she is in shed. Hopefully next week she will take the rat, if not I will go back to vet and hope they have the injectable meds in stock. There are only 2 ways snakes can get tapeworms: insects and rodents. I don't think tapeworms are species specific either, but the only way to get them really is to eat the eggs.

Quote Originally Posted by Maddumpling View Post
I never feed live too not only because they could bite the snake but things like parasites. I'm not saying you are wrong, but I'm just curious, could tapeworm eggs really live that long in a frozen rat if its been frozen for over a week or something.
I will check with my vet to see if he knows anything about this, but I do know that rats/mice need to be frozen to a certain temp to kill the parasites. I don't know what that temp is though.