Kelly's eyes!

[Salamander Rising]

I actually have a few snakes who tend to look "puffy" when they are in blue, it usually goes down after a day or so.

Then again, I had another snake who had "duck face." We did take her to a vet and put her on anti-biotics, but it was concluded that she was most likely swollen from rubbing her nose. The tolerance between the tubs/top of the rack was a bit too much and I think she was sticking her snout in between and maybe that caused the swelling.

Here is a link to pics (Scroll down) http://squamishserpents.ca/bad-clutc...-baytril-oh-my
But I noticed her looking weird in the same way you did with your snake; I thought her eyes looked smaller/sunken in.

Honestly though, your snake doesn't look that bad but I would absolutely keep an eye on it. have you tried having 2 people wrestle your snake into letting you look in it's mouth? I get my boyfriend to hold the back end. Let the snake coil it's back end around your assistants arm, and then grasp the snake behind the head and pry open the mouth with a rubber spatula (one you would use for icing a cake) it's soft enough that it should not hurt the teeth at all. I do this with an LED flashlight held between my teeth just in case I need a better look. A headlamp would work also.

Good luck!

I have no idea what's up with her eyes but apparently they've always been this way.

I looked up photos of her from the time she was little until now and they 'look weird' in every one.

She's over a year old now so i reckon it's 'just her'.

They're on this thread if you'd care to look

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hat-the-heck-!

She's happy, she eats like a mad woman and is growing almost scary fast so it can't be anything that bad.

We tried a two-person 'assault'.

She won.

No matter what we did, as soon as I messed with her face, she went into an alligator death roll...even when inside a snake sack.

She's kinda got her own thoughts about how things should be.



I thought maybe she'd knocked her climbing tree over on herself and got a head injury but the year long photo records show the same beady eyes.

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Nothing looks bad to me, her head doesn't look swollen, her eyes just look a little weird. My guess would be a miss-strike, but keep an eye on her just in case.

You know by now that if any of my snake kids have so much as a 'funny looking' scale, I instantly go into hysterics.....

[and all my dogs' vet record folders look like Gutenberg bibles]