Urgent please help: Peaches got hurt

[zina10]

Thank you for clearing that up, I'm sorry for over reacting and accusing you of being angry. We have tiny mouse pups we can try, but like another user mentioned before I am worried that if I inject the prey and it takes a while to digest, I could end up overdosing Peaches which I really don't want to do.

Just to clarify. If I can get peaches to eat a smaller meal (like the small weaned rat) every, say, 5 days would it be okay to give metacam orally, as there would be food in her stomach?

Please don't get to stressed !!

Let's figure this out

Everybody is just confused at your vet's dosing method, because snakes usually do not eat daily. And we are talking Ball Pythons here, and on top of that, a stressed and injured one. It just seems odd.

But your snake isn't going to die, probably not even if it gets NONE of that medicine in it. Didn't you say it was sort of a anti inflammatory ? Or is it supposed to keep infection at bay ?
Did the vet give you anything to prevent infection ?

Do you have another vet you could ring and ask about this ? Is this vet a reptile specialist ? Just take your time answering, please do not stress in between. Peaches will be fine, even if she doesn't get the meds right this second, so lets just figure this out


edited to say: Don't feed weaned rats daily either way. That would amount to a small rat within 2 days, and a large rat in no time. I'm pretty sure you don't need to stress the snake with a huge meal right now, they can't digest that fast. This method would only work if you find rat fuzzies or something of that sort. Not sure the snake would take that?