Quote Originally Posted by bjfoste1
How did you actually rescue it?
how? well there WAS a exotic reptile store here. they went out of business due to illegal matters and their care. as soon as you walked in it would smell strong of poop and pee from rabbits to snakes to rats. rats were running around the floor all over. the cage he had it in was a 4 foot wide by 4 foot wide base that was about 7 feet tall. in this cage was my burm, anaconda, retic, BP's... okay i said 4 x 4.. all these snakes were in there. thing is the others werent baby's either. 1 retic was 13ft, 1 was 6 ft, annie was 9 ft, and balls were about 4 feet to 2 feet each. there was no base to this cage. only floor with a little bit of coconut bark that was soiled in urates/poop. no water dish or nothing. feeding time was... grab a rabbit about 2 to 3 times the width of the snake and throw it in there so all his "friends" could watch in aww. my snake i got was underweight.. kinda still but she's gaining it back. also i asked him her feeding schedule. he said that she eats large rabbits but she hasnt ate in about 3 months. when i picked her up she had blood on her that had dried under her shed. she looked as if she had shed and the humidity and temps werent up for her so she flaked off 1 4in piece and that was it. she was covered in mites and she had cuts and scrapes. they were deep, you could see her skin had healed but no scales on top of them. well come to find out, she wasnt having a feeding problem. she probably had a bad experience feeding on rabbits that were alive. i mean if i was to eat a rabbit and get cut up and bit all the time by it i would be pretty scared to eat it again and again, especially when you got all the snakes in that tank fighting over them. well they were closing. told him id give him 100 bucks for her. he said sure. i brought her home and i put her in a 55 gal tank. reason was for humidity and such on papertowels. i then began my treatment of reptile relief, and some shedding aid. i gave her a bath almost everynight and then treated her with the chemicals and put her back in her tank. well i bought a jumbo rat, and offered it. soon as i did a RAT.....STRIKE! over and over, ive feed her about 5 times now since i had her and she doesnt refuse a meal. like her pic shows she has shed off her scars *most of them* and she is mite free and looks healthy. now that i got her to this stage i am taking her to the vet for an internal check before im satisfied. it may not be a "rescue" to some but in my book it was. when i saw her i felt she was dieing slowly. only a matter of time. to me when you can help something from that harsh of a life and get them to health and happy.... its a rescue