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Mwoxy
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 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: Weird death. |
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Found one of my hatchling Philodryas dead yesterday morning. Don't know if this was direct/indirect cause of death but definitely wierd!!
Maybe it wanted to remember something!
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Dan
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My first thought would be she had been spasming and got herself all tied up but died before sorting herself out. Very weird and fascinating all at the same time...
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that's certainly an interesting photo...
Doesn't look like cause of death does it? (no swelling or bruising) perhaps as Dan said some kind of fit killed it.
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How peculiar???
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Mwoxy
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| Scott W wrote: | that's certainly an interesting photo...
Doesn't look like cause of death does it? (no swelling or bruising) perhaps as Dan said some kind of fit killed it. |
I agree it's unlikely to be the direct cause. Knowing how fragile some of these hatchlings are, I assumed it was stress related.
Was a nice striped animal too!
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Sorry to hear Mark, how are the other ones getting on?
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Peter Parrot
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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What a shame. I too would have thought spasms or perhaps some kind of fit or neurological fault would have caused the tangle.
Certainly a very interesting picture. Thanks for sharing. It`s a shame PM`s are so expensive.
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Mwoxy
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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The others are doing fine, over half feeding from the off (two clutches 19 mouths to feed, 18 now!), all but two 2 of the rest, tease feeding. That's a great percentage for P. baroni, in my experience.
With regards pm's.... I find my animals always die on the 'hot spot', I doubt anything useful would come from these, on the odd occasion they don't "cook" I get pm's done. I have a really great vet, reasonable costs, reptile experienced, willing to discuss and a real world approach to treatments, so pm's aren't prohibitive.
Have to say I really couldn't believe it when I saw the knot!!
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cornfan
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That's got to be one of the strangest things I've ever seen!
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