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Old 10-17-11, 08:20 AM   #1
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Injured Garter Snake found + PICS!

While walking the dogs this morning we stumbled upon a nice yellow striped garter snake with a severe tail injury.

She's slightly malnourished and her injury is infected.

Undoubtedly with the cold weather blowing in fast she would certainly perish in the den over the winter, Cold temps are not conducive to reptile healing.

So she will be spending the winter indoors with daily antibiotic treatments while she heals up.

After she warms up I will take pictures including her injury. It looks like she will be losing a lot of her tail before we are done here.
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Awesome Wayne! Hope she makes it through the year.
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Awesome Wayne! Hope she makes it through the year.
Me too, just have to see how it goes.

She didn't even struggle when I picked her up, she felt cold and clammy in my hands.

Hopefully I can get her to eat, nutrition, heat and silvadine should take care of it.

The damage is past her vent, so going to the bathroom should not be any problem.
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check out her tail.. poor girl. She's been basking all day. Capturing her true lemon yellow seems difficult with my camera/lighting.





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I'm glad you found her!
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at least she has a much better chance of survival now you found her mate

looking forward to pictures and following her healing proccess

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poor thing. I wish her a speedy recovery!!
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at least she's in the right hands for the best chances!!
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hope she pulls through for you. what happen to her tail? almost looks like she was stepped on or something?
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what happen to her tail??
No clue, she was sunning in the meadow, even though it was quite cold.

Thats another bad sign, snakes don't like cold, most of them are down in the holes already. Or at least hovering close by so they can go down at night to avoid the frost.
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Thanks, she got a drink and swam in her water bowl a little now she's just chilling, I'm going to turn off the basking light and turn on the belly heat for the night.
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Folks we have an eater.. Readily chomped down three nice strips of rainbow trout just now.

First meal at the "Hospital"
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Folks we have an eater.. Readily chomped down three nice strips of rainbow trout just now.

First meal at the "Hospital"
Hells yeah that is a good sign! She is awesome looking too.
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Hells yeah that is a good sign! She is awesome looking too.

That's right, can't heal without nutrition.

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when she heals are you planning on letting her go? or is she part of the collection now?

good job wayne
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