Quote Originally Posted by Salamander View Post
They've all already been bumped up and they're grumpy about it.
They liked their 90 degrees and for whatever reason, 2 or 3 *more* degrees puts them in a collective snit.
They're all in their cool side hides except the ones who are currently pink.

Giving the shots scares the bejeebers outta me.
Norma's not exactly what you'd call a people person anyway and she's totally squirmy when out.

She doesn't "twitch", she flails about wildly.

I may have to stick her in a cardboard mailing tube to do it.
[I'm terrified I'll go straight through her whole neck!]

I'm really starting to wonder if she doesn't have inhalation pneumonia after that episode of shooting water out of herself like a hose.
A lot came out that night and I thought sure she'd "thrown up".

I took her out tonight to clean her tub, water bowl and herself and she was squirming everywhere and it seems that hanging upside down makes the runny stuff come out more.
Is it possible to "drain your snake" [oh, shut up, you menfolk! LOL] and help her expel some of it?

The more that came out, the happier she seemed to be.
[to the point that she leaned out, grabbed the toilet paper hanger and started a daring climb up the side of the glass shower door...she was acting limp and blah, before]

She blew some more bubbles and seemed relieved.

Possible it helps a bit?

If I'm given oral meds, how on earth do you make a snake swallow nasty antibiotics?
I haven't even accomplished getting her mouth open, yet.
Lol! I love the way you describe things.But on a more serious note, I don't know that it's possible to drain your snake, nor am I familiar with inhalation pneumonia. (It sounds terrible though. Lol) The only thing out of the ordinary my vet had me do was soak my snake in lukewarm water for an hour every day. 30 minutes Inge morning and 30 minutes in the evening to keep her hydrated and help her cough it up I guess? As to the Baytril injections, the needle isn't long enough to go straight through, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. But it is long enough to do serious damage if not angled correctly. The shots were administered in the front half of the body, in the more dorsal part of the side at a 45ish degree angle. It's a very small angle anyway. The needle goes in between the scales. So I'm not sure if you'd be able to do a tube. My fiancé had to pin my girl down and hold her tight because she struggled with everything she had. Lol. I would then hold the part of her I was injecting with one hand to keep her still ish and inject with the other hand. It was very nerve racking every single time, and she was none to pleased with me. Lol.

I wouldn't do oral meds. Injections are much more effective and faster acting. Not to mention, you can't garauntee that the snake would keep down oral meds. Little boogers.

Sorry if I didn't cover everything or if my post contains atrocious spelling errors. I'm writing from my phone.