Quote Originally Posted by Manasha-Bogo View Post

They will feed her again on Monday. They are giving her only small amounts of food in order not to overload her. I asked about alternative ways to get a fecal and the answer was they have to wait for her to poop on her own because using a tube to extract it won't get anything because snakes absorb all their food if they haven't eaten this long. The way he explained it made sense at the time. He (vet #2 this time, vet #1 is out today) explained snakes are not like humans in that we always have some amount of waste in our intestines at all times which you can go in and get. Not so with reptiles, he says.



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I suggested the cloaca wash because the exotic's team at my university vet school has done it to one of my snakes. Your vet is right that snakes don't constantly have poop in their intestinal tract, but if you can palpate some, the wash does work. And I just assumed she still had some left over food from her previous feeding before her regurge.

Either way, I agree with you. If she has parasites, its been treated.

It sounds like things are looking positive for Manasha.
And is that her in your avatar picture, then she's gorgeous!

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