Quote Originally Posted by djslurp1200
So theres a Petland 2 blocks from my house here and everytime I go in me and my girlfriend will look at the puppies and what not and eventually look at the snakes and other reptiles just to see what they have. Well there is an adult ball python there right now and they've had him/her (unsexed) for a couple months now. The thing is, They've got it in a 15 gallon aquarium with no hide, just a big water bowl and a small simple branch and on top of that they're using rabbit pellets (food) for substrate! The real heartbreaker is it has a retained eye shed and a nasty one at that! According to the GM of the store it's retained 2 sheds worth of eye caps and it just looks horrible. I have no interest in buying the animal but what kind of treatment would be needed to remove such old eye caps. i'm sorry to have to post another sad thread about petco, petland or any other major corperate petstore and how they don't take care of their animals but I really feel hurt by the way this snake is living. And it's Husbandry conditions...

I've tried to give helpful tips to get the shed off such as the warm damp pillow case or a lightly rubbing a warm wash cloth down the direction of the scales and even contributed facts that these animals thrive in burrow's in the ground in africa and how important a hide box is to them...Yet they never take any advice and put it into action.

What kind of treatment would be needed to take care of a retained eye cap like this..(2 sheds still on)?
As sad as it is even if you went in their with some more advice its going to go in one ear and out of the other.