This is a rehab I am working with right now. The infection is a direct result of stomatitis resulting from rat bites, and of course, the eaten tail. This is from AFTER surgery. I need to find the before shots. I am just the post-op caregiver. Swampy initiated the treatement and organized the rehab. This snake just took 2 small Frozen/Thawed rats for me last night. If this boa will eat f/t, any boa will.
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This has to be one of the worst cases of neglect I have come across. This boa had stomatitis that went untreated by the previous owner and got so bad that its face was basically "peeled off" its skull. The infected tissue swelled up so far that it enveloped the teeth. And as usual with about any case of snake neglect, there is significant rodent damage from feeding live to a snake that evidently was unable to kill its prey. There is actually a couple inches of the tail completely gone. B W Smith
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