finally have a snake

[akane]

Apparently I made an account here in 2013 but no one I have lived with would let me have a snake. I finally wore my husband down. I made a post last night but I included links and then clicked wrong and it went poof.

So impulse pickup I got a rosy boa. In cedar shavings, constant large water dish in high humidity state, no heat and it was in the 60s F when I picked her up, no hiding place.... They said she refuses to eat anything but a pinky mouse every 7-10days. Maybe because of that heat thing? Signs of respiratory problems in snakes?

At 1am I was hunting the house for a working incandescent bulb and never found one and the husky ate the electric blanket cords last winter so she has water bottles tied off in socks and laid next to rocks we are heating until we can get bedding and heat source this evening. She draped and wrapped herself right around one.

She bit me a few times while getting her settled. I can't say I blame her given the stress. I'm not sure how much 2 hr bumpy car rides impact snakes. Then my animals were making noise and I have the smell of rodents in the house from wild mice (been working on that since we moved in 3 years ago), my gerbils, and my guinea pigs. For now I'll blame it on the day. I just picked her up and moved her from the cooling water bottle to the newly heated one without issue.

I don't know enough yet to know what I don't know but I would not take in an animal I wasn't ready to learn to care for and provide it's requirements. I guess I'm looking for advice to make sure she's healthy and get her eating better. This time I will attach photos instead of links. My camera ran away and my phone is a bit crazy about colors in poor light so one is too dark and one is over exposed. Her color is in the middle.