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    Re: Tiny rescue ball python: I may need help

    I dont think the deformities are enough for her to eat on her own... If I or my vet thought so, I would have considered euthanasia already, but everyone in the practice thought we can make her pull through, so I'm trying to do just that.
    If there was someone more qualified to take care of her that I knew of, I'd have handed her over, but the community in germany is pretty small, I don't know anyone who'd do better than me, and rescue shelters hardly know what to do with healthy adult snakes, let alone tiny problem snakes... and I do have experience taking care of impaired animals- been doing so since I was about 13, just not reptiles (birds, cats, frogs, hedgehogs etc, and except for one hedgehog, one frog and two birds they all survived).
    I only brought up the age because another vet (not the one I usually go to) said she might be a lot younger than the breeder said and that she may not have taken more than maybe one meal before. So I thought you'd maybe treat a baby snake who hasn't eaten a meal before differently from a snake who may already be a few months old and used to another way of feeding.
    Maybe a translation error on my part, sorry... what I meant is that the system they use to process sound inside their head was inflamed (it was so bad her head was actually swollen)... the vet explained it as being similar to an inflammation of the middle ear in humans.
    She does have one fully developed row of bottom teeth and manages to pull in the food just fine (once the mouse's head is placed in her throat). She did have a pretty thorough examination and the vet said she seems to be okay on the inside, but you still could be right, there still could very well be something wrong with her system that is not overtly visible
    I fully understand she may not make it despite my best efforts, but that does not mean I will not still do everything I possibly can.
    I'd be really, really grateful for instructions on liquid feeding, as I'm not a big fan of assist feeding either (I only did it because I was told she might die otherwise)

    Thank you to everyone who took their time to answer, I really appreciate it!

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