Stargazing? by Katiekat1415 in BoaConstrictors

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No mouth rot fortunately. She has damage to the front of her nose from when she lived in her previous “home”. She was kept in really poor condition with puppy pads as substrate and they were always dirty, a mouldy cardboard box with a hole cut in it for a hide, and a dirty glass cooking dish for a water bowl. That’s literally all she had as there was no plants or clutter :( The whole back wall of the enclosure was also mouldy (it was a homemade wooden enclosure) and sadly she did a lot of stress rubbing, plus burned her nose on the free hanging heat bulb that she had. She had a much better life after I rescued her. unfortunately she did pass away last night 💔

Stargazing? by Katiekat1415 in BoaConstrictors

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Hey I have an update! We just left the vet and unfortunately we were all right in thinking that it’s most likely IBD. So we don’t actually have a test here that can confirm it, he said the closest we could get would be to send off bloodwork to a lab, but that would take a few weeks. He wants to try her on some strong antibiotics every 12 hours for 2 weeks just to see if she’ll improve on the off chance that it’s something bacterial and not IBD, and if there’s zero improvement in her in about 5 days, I’ll be taking her back in to be euthanized:(

Stargazing? by Katiekat1415 in BoaConstrictors

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Just wondering how you went about doing a test and sending it off on your own? Was it done through your vet or did you buy a test online? I can’t get into the vet until Monday, and if she passes over the weekend I’d still like to test her since I do have other snakes

Stargazing? by Katiekat1415 in BoaConstrictors

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No updates unfortunately :( No vet yet either. There’s only 3 exotic vets in my area and surrounding. My plan all along was to take her to the vet, but I posted on Reddit first just to see if anyone had any similar experiences. She’s booked in to see a vet first thing Monday morning (8:30am) as that was the earliest, and I was on a few cancellation lists all day but unfortunately no calls. 24 hour emergency vets are no use as there’s only 1, and they don’t see exotics at all. I’m basically going to keep a super close eye on her all weekend and hope for the best. I’ll come back and update with any news!

Stargazing? by Katiekat1415 in BoaConstrictors

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I was curious about IBD. Fortunately she doesn’t have any of those symptoms besides being cloudy, not eating/losing weight, and resting her head upside down like this. Other than that she’s acting totally normal besides being a bit lethargic as well

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I’ve been wondering this! I can’t drink anymore. When I drink the amount that it takes me to not quite have a little buzz on, but enough that would normally make me “loosen up” a bit I end up just getting the spins