Septicemia Dehydration Baby Ball Help!

[Moose84]

Feeding issues are were most likely husbandry related based on your statement (baby in 40 gallons tank) which is typical with new owners. It became a vicious circle and was not addressed soon enough (should have been addressed withing the first 2 to 4 weeks)

An adult can not a baby and no if their husbandry are met, babies and juvies are eating machine.

Vet likely overreacted because most vets do not understand those animals and what triggers them and think the magic solution for everything is antibiotic and force feeding rather than promoting normal feeding behaviour by making necessary husbandry changes.

that reinforces my belief that your vet is not experienced with BP (this alone is enough to kill an animal that has been weaken because of being of feed for too long). Your vet does not understand the toll a snake digestion process takes not to mention the stress associated with force feeding let alone every other day.

I am still not getting where the septicemia comes in what were the symptoms?

Do you have a thermostat in your enclosure? Is your substrate damp?

Unfortunately Deb is 1,000% accurate here. Not sure how a vet would diagnose sepsis without doing blood work to include cultures.. What it ultimately sounds like here is this animal was kept in less than desirable conditions and then was stressed to the absolute max with force feeding and antibiotics. If sepsis was indeed the case a culture should have been performed to treat the animal appropriately..

Not every vet "does exotics" as they claim unfortunately.. I recently took our K9 in for an ear infection. They have seen him his entire life. New vet there and asked what other pets are in the house. I informed her that we only had snakes and they were in a dedicated space that's not near where the dog goes. She told me, "I do exotics too. I love snakes.. I just don't do poisonous. Total turn off. We are lucky to have a Dr. Stahl within 30 minutes of us who SPECIALIZES in exotics.

In closing this probably isn't what people wanted to hear but maybe it can save another animals life and save someone else quite a bit of money..