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I hope this doesn't turn into drama

WebSlave said:
Anyone with more than an ounce of living brain tissue will be able to tell exactly what happened. How old is your customer? Looks to me that it's a kid who thought it would be "cool" to watch the boa kill a rat.
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That's a good point. I wonder how old he really is.
He had said he only feeds f/t (and that is what I fed this boa) but it sure doesn't look like that. It looks like he threw a live rat in with the snake.
 
It's actually more than one wound. I circled the damaged areas of this snakes neck. Those wounds are from a live feeding gone horribly wrong.
 

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yes, very similar to the damage done to one of my boas back in the 90s when she coiled the rat, it was chomping on her neck as she was constricting. It wasn't as bad as that, but similar marks and more than one.
 
Finally he admits I did not send it to him like that.
But he still insists it was not caused by a rat and still no vet visit planned.
 

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Heaven forbid someone take an animal to a vet. I know, I'll go ask on the forum and hope I get sound medical advice. :thumbsup: I always wonder if they let their human children suffer when they're sick, too.

Could have been caused trying to get out of an enclosure with an ill-fitting door/lid. Or who knows. At least he's no longer hinting around that it was shipped like that, and you've got screenshots for if he does try it again.
 
I think it is a bite wound. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.......
I think Moo is right, too. He put up the pic and he can't lay it on you Steve; all of a sudden he hears his post is getting around and of course he is going to deny poor husbandry.
Maybe the Easter Bunny did it.
 
Lucille said:
I think it is a bite wound. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.......
I think Moo is right, too. He put up the pic and he can't lay it on you Steve; all of a sudden he hears his post is getting around and of course he is going to deny poor husbandry.
Maybe the Easter Bunny did it.
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Yeah, rabbits CAN give a pretty nasty bite... ;)
 
Now he has some room mate posting on the thread at KS saying he never made it sound like it arrived that way and the people on the forum are no help.
GET THE SNAKE TO A VET!
My vet is an hour each way and I work a lot but I still make sure I get to the vet if I need to.
Man I regret this sale. That poor snake.
 
well they sure are being deffensive aren't they!
:rolleyes:

Hey here's a photo of some frozen rats, that PROVES it was fed f/t. um... sure, riiiight. anyways, even if it wasn't a live feed, it's a fresh wound. I still say it looks like a bad rat bite... but I've been wrong before.
 
That wound is better then a week or two old,looking at zoomed perspective it appears
there is more damage(bruising etc) towards the lower third.
I dont think the damage was from a feeding incident like I previously assumed.

"Something" happened to cause the trauma . . . . . ?
 
Tommy, i am more likely to agree with you. My immediate question was " whats he housing it in? " Did it get its head trapped trying to escape?

Im not saying its NOT anything, but that... maybe there is another cause?
 
Shadera said:
Could have been caused trying to get out of an enclosure with an ill-fitting door/lid. Or who knows.
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Or, I wonder if they've got some tape in that enclosure. It looks like a chunk of skin/scale has been ripped off and tape will certainly do that.

They should sell the 3 clowns, and buy a car. :D
 
My first thought is the same as a lot of y'all ... rat bite. If not that then he got his head stuck and injured himself pulling away from whatever he was stuck on/in.
 
Sad situation. Sorry for you Steve. Looks like bite trauma to me based on the way the underlying tissue looks (im lookin from a cell phone though). Im with Rich. Saying and defending one feeds f/t thawed prey means nothing. The proof is your snake never ending up like this.
Id bet, its a younger adult/older kid, that wanted to impress some friends, so had them all over to a constictor hunt down, ambush, constrict and swallow a live prey. All to common practice these days, unfortunately.
 
Now I AM starting to think you had something to do with this.
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Yeah. I'm responsible for them being terrible keepers. :rolleyes:

I think I am going to have to do background checks on buyers now. :ack2: I don't like the fact that a perfectly healthy animal had to go thru something like this because I shipped it to a bunch of morons.
 
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