Tuesday Oct 05, 2004

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Boy its been a shite day, the shitest in fact. Diablo the Sand Boa was taken to the vets today in Bradford (I hate Bradford) where they have a specialist vet which deals with exotics like snakes and Parrots. Many tests were done on the poor little fellow which included an x-ray and swab samples but she didnt really have a clue what the problem was, the swabs and blood samples needed to be sent off so it was hard to diagnose until she gets the results. He was given a dose of antibiotics and painkillers and I was instructed on how to inject him with antibiotics for the next two weeks. the whole 20 mins cost us a nearly 160 eeek .
On the way back we got pissed wet through and managed to miss the train home so we had to wait an hour for the next one. When we finally caught the train it was packed so we had to stand for most of the journey home mad
Anyway to cut a longer story short we got home and found that Diablo had died, he was three years old frown


Diablo is the one on the left (he's about to shed his skin) and Kachina, his girlfriend is on the right.



Did you know that snakes are real life zombies, they can continue to move for up to an hour after they have died surreal


Sorry for the depressing journal blackeyed
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user062223111:
i can imagine it would be a difficult thing to go though, especially when you watched him develop so much from the being rescued, and then into a healthy snake

my farther used to keep snakes when i was a kid, he used to get furious at ppl mistreating them, from what i remember he must have got a constrictor of some kind at least once a week that was partially malled by live rats

i remember lots of brawls with "natives" that caught snakes in the felt and deiced to keep them as pets
user062223111:
Hehe!! you pervert and all your brushes!

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