I hate to even post in this thread but wanted to say this. Our vet clinic is excellent and having called them over time about various types of pets, they may give some advice but generally always encourage that the animal be brought in as they do not like to diagnose over the phone. I think is very responsible of them. As far as the one vet there who does snakes, she encourages a baseline health check-up (and sexing if needed), so she has basic information in case later on the snake goes downhill for some reason.

Personally, I've never had a vet that, if I was concerned enough about one of my pets to phone, told me that they didn't need to see my pet and left me to nurse the pet at home knowing I wasn't experienced with that type of creature. That would kind of put me off a vet quite honestly.

Btw how in heck do you dab pedi-lite on a snake's nose??? Geesh they tend to be headshy to start with, can't imagine it would work all that well but then what do I know LOL.

~~Jo~~