Bitter sweet
Last year, a female albino boa named Duffy came to live with me. She came into a rescue I voluneteer at and needed somebody to help her recover. She was so skinny, covered in mites, and had one of the worst case of scale rot I have ever seen (covering 3/4ths of her body).
Once the mites were taken care of and the scale rot was showing the first signs of clearing up, she began pounding rats like crazy. She put weight back on slowly but surely. In January of this year, she finally reached her weight goal.
Throughout this entire ordeal, she has never offered to bite. She's never even offered a hiss. She has been the most even tempered animal I have ever worked with.
The mites have been gone since the week after she came to me, and her scale rot has cleared up, as well. She isn't very pretty to look at because she has some major scarring and is missing a good deal of her scales, but she is healthy again. Today, she gets a new home. Her adoption has been made official yesterday, so this morning I dropped her off at the rescue. The man bringing her home is one of my clients. I'm very happy about this. He will be getting an amazing animal who I have grown very attached to. I will miss her very, very much.
Wish Duffy luck in her new home.
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Originally Posted by A Whimsical Observer
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