Just Rescued a Beautiful Big Girl

[BigJayPiercer]

At the end of October my friend on F*book posted saying he was looking for any responsible member of his Network willing to Adopt a mistreated/Malnourished Ball Python. Unfortunately I had to tell him NO because of my landlord had recently told my wife and I that we weren't allowed to have anymore animals.(at the time we had 1 dog, 1 cats and 2 Pythons) I told my friend that I'd keep my ear to the ground and see if I could find it a good home. Long story short, He was called by a friend of his who's nephew had left for college and left his snake behind apparently this young man lived in his disabled mother's basement and had left the snake in a ten gallon aquarium on fish gravel with no heat. Needless to say my friend was livid and immediately went to pick up the poor animal.

So my Wife gets home and I tell her the story and she promptly tells me to Call my buddy and tell him we'll take it. We pick her up a few days later and the poor thing is skin and bones. I bring her home get her settled in a quarantine cage and start to observe her behavior. She ( I probed her to determine her sex) wieghed a little over 1100g when I brought her home but judging by her length this is a female who should be closer to 2500g at peak wieght.

Normally I would have let her settle in for a few days before offering her food but I couldn't deny that her body was devouring itself from the inside, so I offered her a live Pup, which she promptly devoured, so I offered a second one, down the hatch. After 5 days I offered her a small rat which she had completely swallow within 5 minutes. Since then like clock work she has eaten Medium rats every 5 days and even one large when one of macklott's refused to eat. She switched to frozen without a problem and is filling out Nicely.

She has been in my care for exactly 42 days and she has only pooped once, which I attribute to her bodies need to replenish itself.

As of Last night she was up to 1450g. She is currently in Blue and looking very plump and happy. Originally I was only going to nurse her back health and then find her a home but she is such a Sweet, Inquisitive and Calm animal that I have decided to keep her.

Her Name is Zen.

Figured a rescue story with a happy ending would make somebodies day!

[snakesonaplane]

Excellent story, I'm glad she's in better hands now

Got any pics of her?

[CoolioTiffany]

That's an awesome story . So glad she found a great home!

Any breeding plans for her next season? Any Pics?

[DellaF]

Great that you could take her in and give her a home. Love happy endings. Would love to see some pics.

[BigJayPiercer]

As soon as she sheds I'm going to Post some Pics of her she's a very light colored reduced patterned female. In response to your question Tiffany I'm going to let her gain as much weight as possible then probably run her with my Butter Aurix but he's just a little worm right now so it won't be until next fall at the earliest. Hopefully she'll be up to about 2500+g by then she's over 4 feet long now and still under weight.

[BigJayPiercer]

Last Night I was taking some ID photo's and I got a couple of nice ones of Zen so I'll be posting some pics in the Pictures section tonight!

[BigJayPiercer]

For everyone who wanted to see how she's coming along this is Zen a little over a month after I got her. She's in the middle of a kind of choppy shed in theses pics and her eyes are still blue but thought I'd post something.

[YOSEF]

At the end of October my friend on F*book posted saying he was looking for any responsible member of his Network willing to Adopt a mistreated/Malnourished Ball Python. Unfortunately I had to tell him NO because of my landlord had recently told my wife and I that we weren't allowed to have anymore animals.(at the time we had 1 dog, 1 cats and 2 Pythons) I told my friend that I'd keep my ear to the ground and see if I could find it a good home. Long story short, He was called by a friend of his who's nephew had left for college and left his snake behind apparently this young man lived in his disabled mother's basement and had left the snake in a ten gallon aquarium on fish gravel with no heat. Needless to say my friend was livid and immediately went to pick up the poor animal.

So my Wife gets home and I tell her the story and she promptly tells me to Call my buddy and tell him we'll take it. We pick her up a few days later and the poor thing is skin and bones. I bring her home get her settled in a quarantine cage and start to observe her behavior. She ( I probed her to determine her sex) wieghed a little over 1100g when I brought her home but judging by her length this is a female who should be closer to 2500g at peak wieght.

Normally I would have let her settle in for a few days before offering her food but I couldn't deny that her body was devouring itself from the inside, so I offered her a live Pup, which she promptly devoured, so I offered a second one, down the hatch. After 5 days I offered her a small rat which she had completely swallow within 5 minutes. Since then like clock work she has eaten Medium rats every 5 days and even one large when one of macklott's refused to eat. She switched to frozen without a problem and is filling out Nicely.

She has been in my care for exactly 42 days and she has only pooped once, which I attribute to her bodies need to replenish itself.

As of Last night she was up to 1450g. She is currently in Blue and looking very plump and happy. Originally I was only going to nurse her back health and then find her a home but she is such a Sweet, Inquisitive and Calm animal that I have decided to keep her.

Her Name is Zen.

Figured a rescue story with a happy ending would make somebodies day!

Awesome ! I love stories with good news in them !!

[BigJayPiercer]

She a wonderful girl and I can't believe I was lucky enough to give her a forever home

[MikeH]

Awesome story. It's nice to see this happen, instead of the snake suffering, and more than likely dying. She's looking good!