Yesterday morning before heading off to work I discovered my dear snake, Mogley, was dead in his tank. He’s a red tail boa, about five feet long, that I’ve had for five years now and I’m extremely devastated. Shockingly enough he had scoliosis, which I really didn’t even know a snake could have.. but he did! He was diagnosed with it about two years ago, but it is something he was suspected to have his whole life. He was about ten years old, and the vet had mentioned the disease would keep spreading throughout his body and if it went up far enough towards his neck he would have difficulties controlling his body and eating. Both of which started to happen.
The past few months he was experiencing some issues with eating by himself and could see that he was losing more control of his body as he’d end up in weird little kinks and seemed he’d have a hard time straightening himself back out. So although it was sudden, it wasn’t too sudden as I started to see the signs that he was getting much worse.
I’m really heartbroken, I really loved him ): I left work early that day after finally heading in for a few hours, to bring him to a taxidermist. I’m having his skin preserved and would like to have his bones articulated in some fashion to preserve those as well. But apparently the taxidermist can’t do the bone portion, and I’ll have to find someone to clean the bones and shape them back together. It’s going to be a long, expensive process but I really didn’t feel right just tossing away my buddy. Very upsetting and wish I could have done more for him, but I think he was experiencing some discomfort and his condition was worsening so it may have been for the best for his sake. Really going to miss him though I loved him a lot and we have a lot of memories together! I traveled across country with him, we’ve moved together many times, he used to just hang around my body while I did things around the house. I wish I would have been able to handle him more towards the end, but he just didn’t look comfortable enough to do so.
I’ll miss my little man though ): he was my king and I’m glad I’ll at least be able to have a piece of him with me forever. Sigh 😞💔
