The rescued Bredli - the saga continues....

[zuesowns]

LOL thats funny, Thanks guys.
Personally I think shes made my place a better anyway
can I ask possibly a silly question... How exactly do you know if your snake is overweight anyway? I mean I kinda figure if the neck just behind the head is bigger then its head then it'd be OBESE lol but Im a bit concerned that my Stimson might be on the 'chubby' side. Ill see if I can find a recent full length photo of her to see what you think. - It was actually feeding day today so I snapped a quick one before she gobbled it lol. Is she fat? I think she might be? :S
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If you can see a define back bone/spine, then it isn't over weight, you should be happy your stimmie is eating like a champ, they usually aren't the best feeders, from my experience.

 

[ShepQLD]

Hi Zuesowns
at the moment Im in the middle of making the Bredli a proper enclosure, at the moment she is still in a tub but she does have a log hide in there that she likes to sleep on top of and I will make sure her new home has better 'perches' for her. She is such a friendly little thing, shes always out in her tub much more then my other two are, they tend to stay hidden most of the time. (If you have a look back on the original thread I posted some updated photo's not long ago, she is just looking better and better all the time, she amazes me!)

The Stimson was a huge problem feeder when I first got her but she has improved dramaticly over the last few months (leading to me wondering if Im now feeding her to much lol!) she would go almost six weeks between feeds at first but now she eats weekly, the only feed she has refused in the last few months was a few days before she shed. Im glad to know shes not overweight though Id hate to be responsible for any of my babies to not be as healthy as they could be!

 

[Nighthawk]

oh also... for those who werent following the previous thread... you are looking at photo's of a one and a half year old female Bredli, as you can tell she is very very little for her age. she had been kept on no heat and had been fed chopped up pinkies. when she came to me she had little strength and had a retained shed that caused some nasty issues for her.
She now eats velvet mice and pinky rats (usually two per feed) with no issues at all!! I am wondering if I should up her feeds now to the next size up. I have had her for... three months now I think... lol. I am over the moon with her recovery so far and she is without doubt worth every second and every cent thats gone into her recovery. She is so very placid and beautiful. I adore her. Im also loving the colours coming through on her now! I dont really know much about her colouring or anything so if anyone can tell me what she is 'labelled' as Id be grateful

I'm wondering if this placidness is something that's a constant in rescued pythons; we have the same with my childreni Job, hence named because he went through hell before he came to us the poor thing. Also very undernourished and underheated, he's since made a full recovery, is eating with gusto and is the proverbial 'rubber snake'. For the lack of handling he had before us (like, none from the sounds of it) and little interaction he had with people he's incredibly gentle and never strikes out, even to feed unless he's feeling extra peckish lol, even then only about three times in the two years he's been with us.
She's looking fantastic, brilliant job! And I'm sure she's loving the care you're giving her, totally a little princess

 

[ShepQLD]

http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/herp-help-38/rescued-bredli-142307/

hope that works, thought Id drop the link in of the original thread as it has some better photo's on it now
I think your right nighthawk, Ive read a few threads now about snakes that have been through hell and back and everyone of them seems to have the most beautiful nature. I know people say they dont have personalities but Id put money on them at least having an awareness of being cared for compared to not being cared for wouldnt you? Pashcar is without doubt the calmest snake Ive ever encountered. I feel so blessed to have her!

 

[melluvssnakes]

I've got a bredli that we 'rescued' from a frend of ours. She wasn't being deliberately mistreated, the previous owner just didn't know he was doing something wrong. The reason we bought her in the first place was because she was incredible vicious towards him. He couldn't even walk past the cage without her striking out at him. So he was quite happy to pass her on to us. Unfortunately, just before we bought her, he had fed her a mouse that was a little too big for her, and she wasn't on heat so she had an undigested mouse stuck in her intestines. One very expensive operation later to remove it, and she has calmed right down. She's easy as pie to feed, and very rarely strikes out anymore. Maybe it's true that they know when they are being cared for properly...?

 

[Chris1]

I'm wondering if this placidness is something that's a constant in rescued pythons; we have the same with my childreni Job, hence named because he went through hell before he came to us the poor thing. Also very undernourished and underheated, he's since made a full recovery, is eating with gusto and is the proverbial 'rubber snake'.

if it is a constant can u please tell Bella shes meant to be nice, lol,..? she was on deaths door when i got her, for teh first year she was gaining strength and was pleasant, nowdays shes a moody thing and loves to bite the hand that feeds her!!

 

[Nighthawk]

Well that's that theory out the window then lol. Then again... perhaps a renewed feeding response?

 

[Chris1]

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Well that's that theory out the window then lol. Then again... perhaps a renewed feeding response?

maybe,..she is such an agressive feeder, i have wondered if that came from being starved for 18 months,..

last feed she stayed in feed mode for 6 hours after finishingbefore i let her smash a towel so i could move her back in her enclosure, the feed before that i waited 4 hours for her to calm down beofre i used the towel,...she just sits on her chair in strike mode and tried to smash whatever comes within a few metres,..

a few times ive fed her in a sunning enclosure, for teh next 7-8 times out there she was in feed mode, ready to strike at anything, (different mesh snclosure with definately no rat smell) same when i fed her chicken necks on her perch in the aviary, smashed anything that went near her once she was in the aviary for weeks following that,..i will only feed her an her chair from now on, otherwise shes just impossible!!

 

[Nighthawk]

We had a woma like that, well my in-laws did. I say had, she's still here but she's calmed down a heck of a lot since. Basically what happened was that my in-laws thought, stuff it, she wants feeding we'll give her feeding, and just kept going until she stopped eating. She ended up downing 750gm worth of rat, looked like a draught stopper for a week, and afterwards was really chilled out. Also an emergency requiring use of her tank (female Olive popped the door off hers during shed, we found her underneath it), we had to pop her in with her male counterpart for the time it took to fix the door on Olivia's tank. Within about an hour we went back to separate her again, lo and behold they were locked together. So I reckon she either needed a really big feed or a really good shag, or possibly both, because you wouldn't recognise her now lol.