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Anonymous asked:
If you know anything about this, please let me know. I was just holding my milk snake and noticed that his anal scale was lifted slightly, seemed pink underneath, and clear fluid was slowly coming out. I hope he doesn't have an infection but that's what it seemed like to me. Any insight on this? Thank you so much!
sunsnek answered:
My insight is to take him to the vet, especially if your hunch is that it’s an infection.
I love you guys and all your love/support for this blog, but please note that I’m not a vet or a professional breeder who has a lot of knowledge and experience with ball pythons from many different cases/scenarios.
So, if something is up with your pet snake and you’re not sure what it is. Going to the vet to get it checked out is your best option. Please don’t rely on the internet for every remedy/diagnosis if you’re not very educated/experienced with the species of your pet.
That’s not an infection, the snake was peeing. It frightens a lot of new owners. Sometimes its a lot, sometimes its a little dribble, but they evert their cloaca slightly to expel the wastes which exposes some pink coloration.
Environmental Enrichment For Reptiles ; What? Why? and How…?
Environmental enrichment (EE) for animals in captivity is not a new concept, and the benefits of EE on an animals psychological and physiological well being is well documented. However, less attention seems to have been given to reptiles and amphibians. The aim of this post, Is to address the following;
1) What is enrichment?
2) Why is enrichment important? Why have reptiles been overlooked for so long? and what the beneficial effects of EE on reptiles?
3) And finally, Some ideas and examples of how you provide enrichment for your reptile in captivity!
-A Komodo Dragon with a feeding ball at London Zoo by Nigel Sutton
Bringing this back because it’s a good time for a refresher on enrichment and its impact on reptile behavior.
The Stickyfrogs are a bit (well, quite) behind on asks at the moment, but we are going to try and answer them all in the next week! 😊
While you are waiting, please enjoy this pile of Stickyfrogs on the small ledge!
I’ve been thinking a lot about compassion in Judaism, and being kind. In that light, I would like everyone to know that my current favorite Jewish supernatural headcanon is that, instead of driving vampires away with crosses or stakes through the heart, we say the Mourner’s Kaddish for them. I mean, that’s just so adorable. You see this threatening undead creature, and instead of yelling murder, you feel bad for them, and you mourn for them. Imagine being a vampire at the receiving end of that, having been chased away for years and years and told you’re a monster when you come across someone who sees you and your existence and accepts that you’re in a pretty bad place and offers help in the best way they can. I’m actually tearing up about this a little. If someone adds to this post I’ll love them forever.
It doesn’t work for zombies.
This is one of the hardest things she learns, in the business. Saying the Mourner’s Kaddish will slow a vampire, to stare at you with wide shocked eyes (and once, memorably, to weep blood-tinged tears), unable or unwilling to lift a hand against you. It will calm a dybbuk, enough to make it stop whatever destruction it’s begun, and almost always enough to start a conversation about why it clings so desperately to the world of the living, what it’s left undone, how it can be freed to move on. You have died, the Kaddish says, and we mourn you as we would mourn our own dead, because someone must.
But there is no soul and no mind left in a zombie, no vestige of the self it once was, nothing left for the Kaddish to speak to.
She says it anyway, with every head-shot, with every flung grenade.
Not because she still hopes one might hear her, but because they are dead, and the dead should be mourned.
…this is gorgeous.
It’s not resting bitch face, I’m just genuinely ready to fight the first person who comes at me today.
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