That's a new one...the things a "reptile" vet will say...

[zina10]

On a Ball Python facebook page that I'm a member of a lady just posted a picture of her albino Ball Python.

Its a pretty little thing, looks dehydrated, though, or in the middle of a bad shed.

She said she took it to the vet for a "general checkup" and come to know, she actually has a Ball Python/ Blood Python hybrid. She said the Vet
sexed the snake and its a female with the head and body of a Ball Python and the "insides" and "genitalia" of a Blood Python.

Wow...

I do not think this is made up either, she was just proudly showing off her new noodle and the picture was made at the Vet.

I have to say, thats a new one!

[JodanOrNoDan]

Oh my. The vets that will work on anything I don't trust. They need to specialize in something. No human can learn enough to work on every type of animal. I have dealt with a few horse vets that I trust more than human doctors but I wouldn't let them get near a snake in a million years.

[redshepherd]

Dang. The amount of bullpoop professional people can come up with LOL.

That's why I think we all need to research extensively on our own first, before finding a good reptile vet. Because how would someone know if the vet is good or bad, if they don't even know anything themselves.

[OhhWatALoser]

Very interesting. I just did a quick google search and popping a blood python looks exactly the same as popping a ball python to me. Must be those years of experience. I actually revised the care sheet the vet gave me while in the room once and handed it back to her when she came back lol. It wasn't terrible, you wouldn't kill a snake following it, but things like feeding outside the enclosure to prevent cage aggression, Cage needing to be twice the length of the snake (do you keep your ball pythons in 8-10 foot long cages?), needing uv light, needing to soak, ect. oh and the 10 foot gtps.

[mdb730]

I had a t-stat malfunction in my quarantine rack and my enchi cinnamon girl ended up with thermal burns. I took her to the first "exotic" vet I could find and he told me to feed her when I got home and if she didn't eat he would prescribe painkillers. Needless to say that was the last time I ever went back, luckily I got her treated with silver sulfadiazine and decided to feed her after she shed.

[zina10]

Very interesting. I just did a quick google search and popping a blood python looks exactly the same as popping a ball python to me. Must be those years of experience. I actually revised the care sheet the vet gave me while in the room once and handed it back to her when she came back lol. It wasn't terrible, you wouldn't kill a snake following it, but things like feeding outside the enclosure to prevent cage aggression, Cage needing to be twice the length of the snake (do you keep your ball pythons in 8-10 foot long cages?), needing uv light, needing to soak, ect. oh and the 10 foot gtps.

Well, you did GOOD thing. If more people did what you did, perhaps we would get somewhere

[piedlover79]

This is a new breed of stupid. Sigh.

[zina10]

If a vet told me that, my expression would probably be something like that :





And all that aside, there are many GREAT vets out there. I just found that one exceptionally strange. hehe
Apparently they did not mention the dehydration, though...
She also posted that they couldn't tell her whether her snake is blind (its an albino) because the eyes were cloudy from the shed...

[WastelandExotics]

That's hilarious (in a not so funny way of course)! I love when professionals' egos get in the way of their ability to admit when they don't know something. How would they even know what the "insides" looked like without an ultrasound/radiograph? Obviously you can pop and see genitalia but the "insides"?? Just a guess there doc? A random assumption? Ah jeeezzz; that's going to get me for a while!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I have heard worst though.

One of the reason I love MY vet is that she is honest and if does not know she will tell you and refer you to the right person. She has limited experience with snakes and has always been honest about it (I actually taught her how to sex Ball Pythons and she has called me before to pick my brain).

Sadly mainly people will no admit when they do not know especially when it comes down to $$$