Well we had a little snake scare yesterday. Milkshakes wasn't shedding properly, (which can kill them because it suffocates them). So we were researching what to do and letting him soak in a cup of water. Char took him out to check on him and Milkshakes BIT him. Touchy! It wasn't a hard bite, but enough that Char dropped the snake, and then promptly picked him back up.
We've have Boots for nearly a year, and never once has he tried to even snap at anyone of us. Then again, he's never had a near death experience. Anyhow, it was still a shock.
All is well with Milkshakes, we (and by we, I mean Char, while the rest of us watched) helped Milkshakes, and pretty much saved the snakes life. He's still a young snake, or at least that's what the boys keep telling me.
So much for "Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
Y'all should have called! A bad shed isn't too hard to deal with--give him a moist hide, and once it starts to come off, if it isn't coming off all at once, you can put the snake in a container with a wet rag in the bottom and a bit of water. They move around on the rag and it gets the stuck shed off. The only parts to worry about are if the eyecaps don't come off or if the stuck parts of the shed don't come off after repeated attepts--it doesn't outright kill the snake, but it could kill the part of the snake covered--like they could lose the tip of their tail.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, good luck with milkshake!