stuck python! HELP!
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blakehose
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just sit it their and wait. It will eventually get cold/hot and want to move about. put maybe some defrosted chicked, and a thawed out pinky out side it will pick up the smell and no doubt be inquisitive. then just grab it exactly like redbellybite said 
good luck
good luck
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Don't expose it to any heat at all, Just sit and watch the chair.
GOOD NEWS! my mum and brother came over and had an idea! a hariodryer! we simply turned on the hairdryer and put it near the chair so he got warm and started moving again! he was obvisously slowed right down because he was cold. thanks anyway to everyone who helped
rubysnake
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yeah don't leave give it warmth in case it makes it more comfortable, and a defrosted mouse to get it some intensive to come out but as already stated leave a trail of the scent and keep the mouse out of close distance so he cant take it back in!! and do as RBB suggested, its an excellent description and way to gentle ease the snake out it works very well, he may bite, you can always put a glove on if that helps you! its a matter of sitting and waiting uncomfortably, good luck!
** sorry posted this while you'd written back. excellent news!!!
** sorry posted this while you'd written back. excellent news!!!
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TahneeMaree
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you got him dude?
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You put a hairdryer on a snake?
BenReyn
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Yeah, this happened to me with a year old MD... only it was into mys ister's car engine.... and there were no keys to it around :|
L:uckily he came out after 20 minutes..
I hope you have similar lukc mate!
L:uckily he came out after 20 minutes..
I hope you have similar lukc mate!
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Slateman
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LOl you have great sence of humor. I am really enjoying this topic. Don't want to be nusty, it is just so funny.
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Slateman
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You put a hairdryer on a snake?
You don't want your snake crawl around with wet hair, or do you?
JAS101
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well if it bites ya then u can get a good grip of its head if it holds on , being that small the bite shouldnt hurt [ if u could feel it at all]
tenacres1100
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good one :lol::lol::lol:
you got a pic of him??
:lol::lol::lol:you got a pic of him??
whcasual79
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u should've taken pics of the whole incident...
notechistiger
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I hope the lesson here is, don't leave your snake unsupervised.
This, i feel maybe a good time to share my experience with my python and our swival desk chair.
November last year my son and I had our MD on the chair pad and he ever so quickly slid up under the chair and into the plastic constatina tubing that holds the back rest and seat together. Being inexperienced and not knowing what to do (except hold onto the little guys tail so he wont go up any further) i grabed a knife, ....guessing where he was or rather wasnt, i started slicing through the plastic. After parting the plastic i found our guy only to my horror i cut him also.
The poor fellow slid out and and i was horrified, i dont think i have ever felt so bad in my life. My son was crying and i felt sick.
It was very late at night so we popped him back into his enclosure not sure if he would make it through the night.
I couldnt sleep, i was pacing the floor feeling very sick. My son was devastated.
In the morning our guy was still alive so we rang around for a reptile vet... none available, so we made an appointment to see a regular vet thinking at least they could clean the wound give antibiotics and make another appointment ASAP to see a rep vet.
The next day our MD was booked in for surgery, when we picked him up, i was told that i had broken some ribs, sliced through his thyroid gland and i think just missing his heart?
$$$ later he came home with 4 stitches, he wasnt allowed to eat anything until his next checkup.
After his check up we fed him tails, then he went back to pinkies for several weeks, then velvets, then weiners (this was the size he was eating when he got hurt) and now almost a year later he is on two weiners.
To this day i think back to that night and i still feel sick and a lot of guilt.
I can post pics if any is interested.
November last year my son and I had our MD on the chair pad and he ever so quickly slid up under the chair and into the plastic constatina tubing that holds the back rest and seat together. Being inexperienced and not knowing what to do (except hold onto the little guys tail so he wont go up any further) i grabed a knife, ....guessing where he was or rather wasnt, i started slicing through the plastic. After parting the plastic i found our guy only to my horror i cut him also
.The poor fellow slid out and and i was horrified, i dont think i have ever felt so bad in my life. My son was crying and i felt sick.
It was very late at night so we popped him back into his enclosure not sure if he would make it through the night.
I couldnt sleep, i was pacing the floor feeling very sick. My son was devastated.
In the morning our guy was still alive so we rang around for a reptile vet... none available, so we made an appointment to see a regular vet thinking at least they could clean the wound give antibiotics and make another appointment ASAP to see a rep vet.
The next day our MD was booked in for surgery, when we picked him up, i was told that i had broken some ribs, sliced through his thyroid gland and i think just missing his heart?
$$$ later he came home with 4 stitches, he wasnt allowed to eat anything until his next checkup.
After his check up we fed him tails, then he went back to pinkies for several weeks, then velvets, then weiners (this was the size he was eating when he got hurt) and now almost a year later he is on two weiners.
To this day i think back to that night and i still feel sick and a lot of guilt.
I can post pics if any is interested.
id love to see pics of that danni.
I could only imagine the guilt you would have felt doing something like that.
A juvi darwin i nursed back to health got scale rot because of bad husbandry on my part. I felt so bad for the little guy, lucky its all fixed now.
I could only imagine the guilt you would have felt doing something like that.
A juvi darwin i nursed back to health got scale rot because of bad husbandry on my part. I felt so bad for the little guy, lucky its all fixed now.
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