A lot of people my husband works with knows we keep reptiles and one of them asked me if I could take in a boa. I haven't had boas since I got sick and even though I am better now I haven't got one because my husband was against me getting back into boas because of their size anyway I agreed to take in the boa atleast until I could find an appropriate home but he is now here to stay! He is a sweetheart but hasn't had the best of care. They said he hasn't eaten in the 3 weeks they had him and he was covered in mites (which they didn't know about) he also had pieces of stuck shed all over. He is now in quarantine and has provent a mite in his cage and had a soak which I counted at least 50 dead mites in the water afterwards. I have named him Kyo and I am going to try a small hopper mouse later today to see if he'll eat.
Here's Kyo (I think he's a hypo? but not sure):
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Originally Posted by MontyP2016
so I don't know if they will follow my advice. I even explained to them that when I got home I put him in a small bowl of warm water since he was dehydrated for him to drink and soak while I changed the tub (had a tub set up for an adult since I didn't know it was a baby they were rehoming) and after his new cage was set up I took him out of the water to discover atleast 50 dead mites. They said they never saw a bug crawling on him so he must have got them on the way home, since they refuse to listen that they were up inside his scales and that's probably why they didn't see them I give up trying to help someone that doesn't want to listen.