Possible IBD?

[rabernet]

(Your photobucket is not private and your pics can be seen by anyone)

It's private now.

It's too bad that these animals aren't kept in better conditions. I was really hoping she'd come back with some sort of logical explaination for why she keeps her animals the way that she does.

[frankykeno]

Well she obviously read this thread after Deb's post and ran to shut her photobucket up didn't she. Hmmmmm....too bad she's able to do that but not interested in explaining those pictures and how they don't quite jibe with how she portrayed her husbandry and setup as being.

[NightLad]

Well she obviously read this thread after Deb's post and ran to shut her photobucket up didn't she.

When something goes on the internet, it is there forever. I'm sure enough people have copied her pictures (if not the entire album) by now that there isn't any way of going back on what she has chosen to show the world.

Personally, I am still in shock. I didn't think those pictures could be real, but then I checked them out for myself and... they are.

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile905.jpg

Even the milksnakes are filthy. Look at the necrotic, putrefying pinkies in the cage:

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile951.jpg

But, there were 3 good photos of our "mystery guest" too:

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile948.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile962.jpg

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile949.jpg

I think this picture sums it all up... look at the poor snake, gazing out the window. You can almost feel it wishing for freedom:

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile900.jpg

[frankykeno]

How very sad.

[littleindiangirl]

Don't get me wrong, the conditions are wrong, but as to the pinkies, there are 2 milk snakes, and 2 pinkies in view. Pinkies look really nasty after being in an enclosure over night. So that may be the case? Maybe??

[MeMe]

I am new to this forum, but not to snake keeping.

sure looks like you are.

I have had the snake I am asking the question about for 3 years now. Unfortunately, it has only been recently that my snakes have started having health problems.

just... started having health problems....I am AMAZED!

There is a lot of history that I could include, but I am going to try to keep this to a minimum.

maybe you should have included the truth.

Sheba is 3 years old, I am unsure how much she weighs, and just recently had mites. At the suggestion of a friend, whose aunt is a reptile curator at a zoo, I used a pesticide, Sevin dust, to treat the mites. I know better now, but I am including that information because I think it is necessary. That was two months ago.

Seriously....sevens dust was recommended by someone at a Zoo??? Remind me to NOT go to that Zoo.

Just recently I noticed Sheba moving strangely, so I immediately quarrantined her because I feared IBD, or neurological damage.

Quarrentined her??? What from the 4 other snakes you had her in with?

I do have a video of the way she moves, but I have to explain one thing quick. In the video it definitely looks like IBD, but two symptoms for IBD don't fit. First of all she is very alert, knows immediately when I put prey in her tank, (which she doesn't strike) and does not stargaze.

First of all...we aren't stupid. She is NOT very alert and had no care in the world for the pink you put in there...and btw...why were you shoving it in her face?

Secondly, even though she didn't do it in the video, she can flip herself back over. My daughter and I have force fed her a small pinky rat twice now, only because it was absolutely necessary.

great...more stress for her.

Unfortunately I cannot get her into a vet until monday, because there are only two herp vets in the area and they are both extremely busy. My question is do you guys think there is any hope for my baby?

Tell them it is an EMERGENCY!

It breaks my heart seeing her like this, but I am afraid I will have to have her put to sleep, for her own good and the good of the rest of my collection.

Well, for the good of the rest of your collection you need to educate yourself!

I am unsure where the mites might have come from.

really???

The last snake I bought was in July, a Brazilian Rainbow Boa, but Sheba has never been exposed to her.

I find that hard to believe.

The Sevin dust did work, but it isn't worth the risks.

ya think?

Sheba is being kept on the main floor of the house, and all my other snakes are in the basement.

Lie.

When Sheba was kept in the basement she wasn't in the same room as any of my boas. Besides the rainbow I also have 2 redtails. They are kept in a different room, away from all the pythons.tlc929

LIE!!!

My normal cleaning now involves removing the snakes from their enclosures, giving them a bath, and using lots and lots of water to clean out their enclosures, then using a shop vac to suck up all the water. I do that every week, or more often, if the snakes shed or poo in their enclosures. It does get to be quite time consuming, but I am very emotionally attached to all of my snakes, and I want to give them the healthiest living conditions I can.
tlc929

I highly doubt all that!

Sorry about that. They aren't normally in her cage, when I took the lid off I think they went in there for the warmth. This is an older house, with lots of cracks and stuff, and no matter how much we clean and stuff there always seems to be a few around, especially around winter time.
tlc929

yea...well flies aren't normally out in the winter. that is just gross.

It's private now.

It's too bad that these animals aren't kept in better conditions. I was really hoping she'd come back with some sort of logical explaination for why she keeps her animals the way that she does.

of course it is private now! She is busted.

It is just Aweful that someone would let this happen to their animals.

Well she obviously read this thread after Deb's post and ran to shut her photobucket up didn't she. Hmmmmm....too bad she's able to do that but not interested in explaining those pictures and how they don't quite jibe with how she portrayed her husbandry and setup as being.

yep..you know she did.

and now she has no backbone to come back and explain herslef.

[frankykeno]

*races off to give Meme a big old good rep point for that post!*

[Reediculous]

This is what your snakes have for them in the near future!
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...reptile970.jpg

They all need head stones!!

the worst part about it.......she runs, don't run away get some help!

[ladywhipple02]

Obviously, she doesn't care so much for her snakes as she says or she would be back on this forum asking for help.

Ignorance is one thing... voluntary ignorance is quite another, and I personally consider it one of the biggest sins out there. Why would anyone purposefully refuse to learn? Greater than that, why would they purposefully put their pets in a terrible situation because they refuse to learn.

I'm going to go bang my head against the wall... be back later...

[frankykeno]

I'm going to go bang my head against the wall... be back later...

Here you go dear.....