Re: Help! My Yellow Rat Snake won't eat!

Posted by Dan on May 22, 2001 at 00:30:47:

In Reply to: Help! My Yellow Rat Snake won't eat! posted by Tori on May 20, 2001 at 21:59:22:

Tori, sagging skin. Forget vet because unless you have a stool sample, he can only suggest a feeding method or inject vitamens or force feed. Listen, hold snake firmly behind the neck but gently to not harm the snake. Now put in the head of a dead pinky and do not move. Allow the snake to start and finish the swallowing process. If you move, he will regurg the pinkie. Now if that will not work or the snake is too small for the pinkie, kill a mouse and pull off a leg and you will have what resembles a chicken leg. Put that into the snakes throat and see if the snake takes it. Do not move and allow the snake to take it. If not, then make sure the leg is wet and slide it in the snakes throat and massage it to its stomach. After this for two or three feedings, the snake will have sufficient energy and confidence to feed on it own. Good Luck and do not forgo force feeding as your snake will die.

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: Tori, sagging skin. Forget vet because unless you have a stool sample, he can only suggest a feeding method or inject vitamens or force feed. Listen, hold snake firmly behind the neck but gently to not harm the snake. Now put in the head of a dead pinky and do not move. Allow the snake to start and finish the swallowing process. If you move, he will regurg the pinkie. Now if that will not work or the snake is too small for the pinkie, kill a mouse and pull off a leg and you will have what resembles a chicken leg. Put that into the snakes throat and see if the snake takes it. Do not move and allow the snake to take it. If not, then make sure the leg is wet and slide it in the snakes throat and massage it to its stomach. After this for two or three feedings, the snake will have sufficient energy and confidence to feed on it own. Good Luck and do not forgo force feeding as your snake will die.

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