Am I doing the right thing?

[Reptilian]

My sister has a friend who is looking to get rid of his ball python because it's not eating. Well that is an easy enough problem to fix if you know what your doing and have the patience to wait it out.


So I naturally have questions about the ball and she said that he's looking to get rid of it and that now it has RI. So I tell her to tell him to take it to the vet. It won't cost that much. Of course to a couple of 15, 16 year olds any money that isn't going towards pizza and clothes is a waste of money...

I feel bad, for the snake. I told her to tell him if he's looking to get rid of it, I'll take it for free. Is that the right thing to do? My sister says he's a "reptile freak" so I am assuming he'll just take the money and go buy something else with it.

[dr del]

Hi,


Well theres a couple of questions you have to be able to answer as you know;

Can you adequately quarantine this animal from your own collection for at least 2 months?

Can you afford to have it treated at a vets bearing in mind that it might not only be an R.I.?

Personally if he could be talked into taking it to the vet and learning how to set everything up so it gets happy, well and eating that would be the best solution for me. Another convert to BP's and a happy snake all in one fell swoop.

Have you actually examined the snake yet? One thing to worry about is, if he really is a reptile freak, if he buys a lot of reptiles mites are something I'd definately keeping an eye out for.


dr del