"Coughing"???

[mischevious21]

Someone just e-mailed me asking if I wanted a snake, a BP, and seeing as I had room, I just asked him to tell me a bit about himself, the snake, it's health, and why he's getting rid of it. He was honest with me and said that theres 'something' wrong with it, and that he can not afford to take it to the vet. I asked for symptoms and he said it's kind of like 'coughing'... I just e-mailed back and asked if he saw any mucus, or any other signs of RI. What do you think?

[mischevious21]

Come on people, theres like 60 people sighned in right now, some help with this, please? And also- what would you do, take the snake in, or leave it...

[STORMS]

If you can afford the vet visits it may or may not need and you have the space, take him in and give him a better home

[ani15174eva]

I say take him at least this person was nice enough to the animal to contact you!

Go get it right now!!!LOL, your still here reading why havn't you left yet???

LOL I think you should give the animal a caring home if you can...

~hollie~

[mischevious21]

Yea, I just offered to come out and pick her up tommorrow- before I even read your comments. lol. She doesnt sound good, I had a petstore rescue with RI before that I had to do some treatments with, but coughing? My boy never did that... Lets hope it's something else. I guess I may just be finding out sometime tommorrw!

[West Coast Jungle]

RI's can be real serious. Find out how long he's been sick. Curing him will mean taking him to the vet, doing a culture on the infection, picking an antibiotic from culture info and giving him injections for weeks. You need to get his temps up to the low 90's asap. If it gets worse he will eventually drown from the mucos. Coughing is a serious sign.

[stangs13]

I would tell them to contact the local herp society or rescue. I wouldn't bring a sick animal into my house with my healthy snakes.

[ani15174eva]

If you can I say take another person with you...

"Safety comes in numbers" remember that, you never know what you are getting into going to someones home, ever there are some crazy people out there....

Hope everything goes well...

~hollie~

[mischevious21]

RI's can be real serious. Find out how long he's been sick. Curing him will mean taking him to the vet, doing a culture on the infection, picking an antibiotic from culture info and giving him injections for weeks. You need to get his temps up to the low 90's asap. If it gets worse he will eventually drown from the mucos. Coughing is a serious sign.

Thats what I had assumed- I'll set up the tank tonight so that after I go get him in the morning, when I get home he'll be all set untill I get him into the vet. I feel so bad for her! I will let you guys know tommorrw how bad it is when I pick her up... I wonder what the hell this guy was doing to get his snake that bad- and wait this long? I'm not going to yell at him now for it.. Just get the snake...

[mischevious21]

I would tell them to contact the local herp society or rescue. I wouldn't bring a sick animal into my house with my healthy snakes.

I figure I'll put her upstairs, which is a whole level away from my other snakes... Maybe even keep her at my boyfriends house untill she's better- can BD's get RI from snakes?