I don't really know what's going on with this one. I was holding her a couple weeks ago, and noticed 3 pretty good sized lumps about 1"-2" up from her cloaca. It felt like huge urates, and I do know she hasn't passed ANYTHING since she's been in my care (about 2 months), and I know it's not completely abnormal for bloods to contain everything in them for quite sometime (so to speak). But the lumps worried me, so I took her to the vet and he manually palpated all the feces out of her (there was A LOT). So I thought, maybe that helped 'unblock' her. Nope, not likely. Yesterday I felt those lumps again. She hasn't even passed urates on her own, I don't understand. I have her on pretty damp cypress mulch (and she stays buried 24/7), a huge water bowl for her to soak in (which she uses on occasion), inside a 32-quart rubbermaid in a rack. That's exactly what the vet told me to do, and she's been on that for the entire 2 months that I've had her.
She's about 24" long or so, 452 grams, feeding on medium rats. I have tried soaking her in warm water, that didn't work. A vet told me to try a syringe filled with 100F water and gently insert it into her cloaca. He said if that doesn't get the urine out, nothing will. Hmmm....What do you guys think?
*Sorry about the novel, but I had to ask
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Jennifer
Red Blood keeps getting blocked up...
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