Quote Originally Posted by Rosa View Post
Hello, thank you for your answer.
Very sorry about your snake your post is actually what I found on line and was read yesterday. It scared me a lot and was a very sad situation for you.

I live in Montenegro, we don't have a reptile vet anywhere in country.
Montenegro is a small country, just 600 000 inhabitants. We are located under Serbia. I live in a city where we actually have a vet that is most promising for treating other animals than cats or dogs, but the thing is that even tests, like cytology you are mentioning, can't be done. Vet can look at the cells under the microscope and that is all. Anesthesia for reptiles is also non existent.
It is really not a problem of going somewhere or money, it is a problem of just not having the service.
All they can offer me is - X-ray, not sure how it is called in English but looking of poop sample for bacteria, fungus or parasites, and they have a machine to do blood tests but they never took blood from a snake.
I am planning to do an x-day and poop test because in your case you found an E.colli infection and parasites. So I hope in such case I would have diagnosis.

Best wishes
No, we didn't do a fecal on my snake. The first vet wanted to but she was wrong and I refused the fecal. I did give him injections antibiotics because they stick a needle in to see what it is, so the drugs are just something they prescribed in hopes that it was an infection. The second vet properly diagnosed him and confirmed it is not bacterial in nature or an infection without a fecal. What confirmed his diagnosis was an examination and x-ray. It may or may not show much on your x-ray because your snake appear to be in the very early stage. Mine progressed a few more months before I found the 2nd vet. By then, the x-ray showed his tail bone was partially eaten away by the mass, and the mass grew big enough to see it wrapped around the tail.

Good luck. It's very difficult when this happens to any pet. These types of growths usually have bad prognosis for snakes, due to the proximity of where they grow. But don't give up hope. It could be an infection, who knows? Let's see what the vet finds and go from there. You will know what to do when the vet sticks a needle in the bump. If it's bleeding excessively or white clear liquid is coming out, that is very bad.

By the way, snakes experience pain differently than us. Mine did not appear to be in pain until the last week of his life. When your snake refuses food, prolapses, getting agitated when you try to touch or pick him up (if he normally is a friendly snake), no longer doing what he would do...those are the signs when humane euthanasia is best if the condition cannot be cured.