HELP! boa bit python, found wounded reeeeel week n gaping mouth on sunday. wha...

[RobNJ]

Oddmary. None of us are being negative. We are being realistic. I'm not trying to be mean here but are you prepared to spend lots of cash to rehabilitate this animal if it can indeed be saved? Vet trips aren't cheap and neither is treatment. No offence but assuming its a normal ball python, a new hatchling will be much cheaper than the vet appointment and treatment. Please stop this snake from suffering and have it put down. It's the right thing to do.

I'm going to go against the flow of the current here and say I'm rather appalled and embarrassed by all the forum "know it alls". For anyone to recommend that someone put down their pet without knowing exactly what the issue is is ignorance of the highest level. Snakes are resilient animals, and a broken jaw in a snake(if that's the issue) can be healed. If the owner has the time, resources, and will to pursue that route, to save their pet, then it's on them, and I for one support them. If the snake has to wait a couple days to make a final decision, the owner is completely in their right to wait. The part in bold might actually be the most ridiculous statement of the entire thread. My dog had to have an ACL repaired a couple years ago...and she's just a plain Jane, average shelter mutt that cost me a total of $75. I could have easily said "Eff it, it's just a $75 dog that can easily be replaced rather than put out the vet expenses"...point being, some peoples' snakes are there dogs or cats. I don't necessarily share that sentiment for my snakes, but I get it. And yes, my dog did have to wait a couple days before I could get her pain relief, and even several more days till the surgery could be done...so she did absorb her share of suffering(cruel me ). I can only hope everyone else isn't so "kind and understanding" in your times of need...