euphorion
Very Well-Known Member
okay so picked up a wild carpet outside my house yesterday, had a quick look over it and found it covered in lumps and bumps. vent scale is missing and there is rotting flesh around in about the size of a 10c piece, abcess close by half the size of a 5c coin. called around to find a reptile vet that would take him in, had to wait until today to take him out to manly vet near everything reptiles. the vets had no clue what to do but a local that they call in to take wild reptiles off their hands (for recuperation and release) came in to see what it needed. i would have thought it would need antibiotics for the infection at least... but the fellow just said to take him home, give him a warm enclosure, feed him up with some worming paste in the first two feeds and let him heal/shed/heal etc then release him in a month or so. fair enough i thought but now i've been turned out of the vet with a big old wild snake, who i dont THINK has mites (very thorough check but im paranoid), with no antibiotics or other advice.
so my question is thus: WHAT DO I DO!!>!>>!>!??!?!?? (stressed out!!)
does anyone know a vet that will give me any better care for this guy? i thought vets were obliged to treat protected native wildlife etc etc etc, they had possums there for crying out loud!
anyway, does there happen to be an ->->-> experienced <-<-<- keeper that may be willing to come and look at this animal and offer what advice they can? or point me in the direction of a vet that will help me? i know there are vet nurses on here that keep reps so please please help me!! i am also unsure of the legalities of me taking him in and trying to fix him up myself.
thus far we have bathed him with a dilution of betadine to soften the rotting flesh and removed the majority of that down to healthy pink flesh, and cleaned out the abcess, and now he is in an enclosure with heat. i will leave him for a few days, three?? and then offer him a small mouse with the worming in it. i am reluctant to use TOD on him (in case of mites) in his state, advice?
im rambling... signing off!
so my question is thus: WHAT DO I DO!!>!>>!>!??!?!?? (stressed out!!)
does anyone know a vet that will give me any better care for this guy? i thought vets were obliged to treat protected native wildlife etc etc etc, they had possums there for crying out loud!
anyway, does there happen to be an ->->-> experienced <-<-<- keeper that may be willing to come and look at this animal and offer what advice they can? or point me in the direction of a vet that will help me? i know there are vet nurses on here that keep reps so please please help me!! i am also unsure of the legalities of me taking him in and trying to fix him up myself.
thus far we have bathed him with a dilution of betadine to soften the rotting flesh and removed the majority of that down to healthy pink flesh, and cleaned out the abcess, and now he is in an enclosure with heat. i will leave him for a few days, three?? and then offer him a small mouse with the worming in it. i am reluctant to use TOD on him (in case of mites) in his state, advice?
im rambling... signing off!