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It’s my mistake thinking it was common sense to go to an exotic vet with experience in snakes and that’s exactly what she is. I called 20 vets and found only 2 that looks at snakes plus I was picky with regards to who I saw at this specific clinic.

All that being said, I am not being defensive regarding the vet because I have 0 loyalty to any medical practitioner be it my physiotherapist or vet. I am only in search of the best of anything. Thankfully, I am also shameless enough to ask the vet “where do you rank yourself with regards to being the best reptile vet in Ontario?” Or “when was the last conference you attended that was reptile/snake focused?”

Alas, I am gonna put a budget of $1000. If that doesn’t save her, I am gonna lay her to rest and make a belt out of her skin. I’ll take the rest of her skinless body and give it a Viking funeral.

Maybe it is common sense (and I'm glad you have it), but we've seen plenty of people skip out on common sense and insist they were right before in the topic of vets so some of us are a bit jaded, apologies. Nothing personal about you, we just wanted to make sure that was not the case here and that the snake gets appropriate treatment. (I'm sure you can imagine how ineffectual a dog/cat vet would be on an exotic snake injury.)

Your wording did sound more in line with what is done to mammals, and that's all the information any of us have to go on is what you say. Your initial reply on her expertise was related to owning snakes and not necessarily treating them medically, so we had to assume that was her limit from the info given.

I'm very glad she is the most experienced available to you and that you're willing to question things and not take it at face value. Hopefully it won't come to needing that belt for quite some time, and it will be able to be healed.

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