On the off chance that I am about to become a very hated person I apologize ahead of time if this sounds like I’m ripping into Jen - I'm not that is not my intent but there are some very important facts that I feel need to be addressed if we are to get to the truth of the matter.
First being in regards to Wyatt:
When Jen came to the BOI with the accusation that Wyatt had sent her an animal that was sick and had gotten her other snake sick – her accusation was made under the belief that this was a fairly standard RI and because someone else had received a snake from him with a standard RI this had to be the source of the infection. However - with that in mind it would be highly unlikely for the snake to have spread the infection to that degree in less than 24 hours - especially with proper quarantine procedure that Jen insisted she had. Yet she made the accusation. Under the circumstances I can’t say that I blame Wyatt for cautiously wanting more info – I would too if I were in his shoes – wouldn’t you? It wasn’t like he completely discounted it he was willing to work with her. Considering he received an email stating there were no signs of RI in the female and she was in fact eating and feisty, etc. then to be accused of sending a sick animal might be a bit frustrating. That he got defensive when attacked here doesn’t surprise me. I am not stating this as a defense for his actions nor do I resolve him of any responsibility – but impartially I understand where his actions were coming from.
Second – there is a timeline issue and yes Jen you made huge changes in the time line as well as other vital information along the way.
Prior to her BOI posts she posted on TSK that Dizzy was sick and she’d gotten the vet tech to bring her Baytril because the Tylan wasn’t working. She doesn’t say where the Tylan came from and there wasn’t any receipt to show when she saw the vet and received the Tylan prescription. For all we know it could have been prior to the Hets arrival? More than likely it was left over meds from the WC girl that died earlier in the year that she insisted wasn’t there for more than a few days and not long enough to treat. Unfortunately her post in March says the snake was there for a week and that she was treating it with the Tylan – before it died - go figure.
But back to Dizzy. According to a TSK thread Dizzy is breeding at 1500 grams at the start of September before getting sick but according to the KS thread - only 1260 something grams when the vet tech calls to get a weight for the Baytril injections – October 2nd. Certainly a weight drop of that amount would lead me to believe the snake was sick for much longer than 3 days. Or maybe Jen was just embarrassed to post that she was breeding 1200 gram snakes – especially after she read people the riot act for doing it on KS. I don’t know.I doubt she dropped 300 grams in less than 3 days.
But I digress….
So there are a few posts on the various forums of Dizzy being sick – and none mention the het who is supposedly also sick. The email to Wyatt on the night of the 29th the het is fine, feeding in fact at some point Jen even says that she is checking on her frequently just to be sure – but she looks great. But then later she says the het was sick but she didn't recognize it because she's never dealt with RIs before - WC female and Dizzy?
Then Dizzy dies – and instead of pointing the finger at the sick het – she says it’s odd because someone else got a sick snake from the same guy Dizzy came from.
According to one post on KS – Dizzy is dead after being sick for a couple of weeks and the het is now sick. So Jen starts treating the het with Dizzy’s left over syringes because they were the same weight (within 10 grams per her post) – but wait wasn’t Dizzy 1500 or 1200ish grams (depending on the post) and the het arrived below the advertised 1100 grams? Is my math off?
Anyway – the timeline on Jens posts are fairly consistent that Dizzy was sick well before the het - until someone on the BOI mentions that she can’t hold Wyatt responsible for her snake getting sick 10 plus days after arrival. At which point Jen goes back to check her records and sees she has a receipt from the vet on the 2nd and says that’s when she took the Het to the vet or something to that nature. But wait we know from the other posts that the vet didn’t see any animals on the second the vet tech just brought over the Baytril for Dizzy because the Tylan wasn’t working or was it you ordered extra doses? I guess it depends on which post you want to believe – but two pretty big contradictions if you ask me – not the kind that would easily slip ones mind.
There are in fact a few posts that either say or allude to the fact that Dizzy and/or the Het were taken to the vet tests done, etc. but as far as I can tell by the receipts that Jen provided – no tests no visits just prescriptions given by the recommendation of the vet tech or the doctors consulted online through vets that really didn’t work with exotics. According to receipts I saw the only animal that had actually seen the vet was Angle well after Dizzy and Lola were dead. Also the snakes seem to interchange as far as what happened to who and when – for example there are references to Dizzys necropsy results – but it was Lola that was according to her post and timeline sent in for necropsy.
There were several other similar questionable statements, contradictions on timeline, events, quarantine procedures, new animals, racks, etc. that I haven’t even brought up because I’m pretty sure the point is made.
I’m not here to cause problems for Jen – I’m not discounting the possibility that the virus did come from Wyatt – but I realize that these medical professionals are basing their findings on what Jen gives them to go on – if this convoluted mess is what she is giving them – or a skewed version to fit her theory- then there is no way they can provide any conclusive information.
I am very sorry to Jen that you have to go through this. I don’t mean to sound like a bitch kicking you when you are down but I want to get to the bottom of the virus and if the facts aren’t there it makes the answers harder to come by.
