What is this?!!!

[Izzys Keeper]

Oh, for heaven's sake. Now we are defending ourselves when we got called out for being fingerpointing blame faces. I'm not even convinced massaging that slug out was the wrong thing to do---a *qualified herp vet* could have done better, sure, maybe, but it was in there for over 24 hours. That's egg binding. Somebody probably had to massage that egg out, because it would have killed her in another couple of days. Don't make me link to all the places where this forum has advised some owner to palpate something out of their snake, bound eggs included. There's a good chance the friend saved the life of the spider, even if she'll never breed again. After a clutch like that, maybe she should never breed again anyway? Maybe she just wasn't built for it.

Sure, I think a vet trip NOW would be a good idea. Absolutely, I think some antibiotics would be a good idea. Yeah, I think her breeding days are over. But it sounds like maybe she simply wasn't really built quite right for breeding to begin with. IK came here asking for our opinions didn't they? I think they deserve come credit.

And it's not IK's snake, and ultimately not IK's decision. And I think IK has done the right thing, as far as they are able to.

What's done is done. We can urge IK to keep urging their friend to take that spider girl to the vet? But blaming IK is pointless. We're just driving him away. "Friendliest online community", huh? C'mon guys, we can do better.

What's done is done.

I'm frankly pretty disappointed in us right now.

Thanks.

To clear things up again... I told the owner of the snake everything discussed here as soon as possible

What i dont get is why it is MY resposibilty to take it to the vet. Or MY REPSONSIBILITY to research this topic.

I was merely an observer in this breeding, not a participant. When i saw things got hairy i came here for help. Sorry if my response wasnt as fast as you would like but it wasnt because i was negligent. AS SOON AS I GOT THE INFO I GOT IT TO HIM AS SOON AS I COULD.

i did my part. I dont think i deserve to have to defend myself to a bunch of people that judged me as soon as they saw the picture.

When i said "we" in my first post it was simply because i am the one posting this thread. I didnt realize my comments would be analyzed by forensic scientist looking to pick a fight. Ive lost alot of respect for a lot of people here.