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 In memory of Borris

Hi everyone I have some terrible news. I just lost my Western Hognose to some unexplainable problem. As most of you guys/girls know he wasn’t eating at all for me and I was worried so I took him to the vet and they did a fecal and did a over all check and everything was fine and he just wasn’t hungry from what the vet said.

After the vet trip he started being more and more of a recluse in the day and just not being active at all. I was worried but the vet said that all was ok and he would eat when he was hungry. Well 2 weeks went buy and he still wouldn’t eat and this last time he still didn’t act the least bit interested so I put him back in his tank and yesterday morning I went to get him out for a check up and he was gone.

I never really get his whole personality because he acted different allot of the time I had him. I loved him though as I love all my snakes and it is a sad ending to Borris and I hope he is in a better place. Also thank you very very much JackAsp for all your concern and advise. I just wanted to post this in Memory Of BORRIS.

R.I.P



12/30/07  01:00am

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JackAsp
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   Message To: Cooperthepython   In reference to Message Id: 1560852


 In memory of Borris

I lost a snake to organ failure a little after I joined this forum a couple years ago. I could not for the life of me figure out what was wrong with him toward the end; the only reason I know at all is that I froze the body immediately until I could get a biopsy done. The vet who performed it thought the organ deterioration was probably from bad genetics, and I tend to agree that was a possibility, since both he and his sibling developed cataracts in less than a decade, for example. But I’ll never really know for certain if that’s all. There may well have been husbandry issues that were the final deciding factor. Wondering about stuff like that isn’t fun, but it’s not something to fight off or suppress either. It’s part of you. Use it as a tool. There’s no need to live in constant terror for the welfare of your other snakes; you can and certainly should still have fun with them, but when drawn on at appropriate times fear is a great motivator to keep doing our jobs for them. Even then, it’s not always enough, sometimes there are already things happening in there before we even meet them, but the good news is that concern usually pays off. Even when it fails, remember what happened. Draw as much raw data from the experience as you can, even if you can’t quite draw any real conclusions from it until years later. A tragedy is, at worst, something that just sucks. At best, it’s a learning experience that may eventually lead to an understanding of something important that proves vital to your other pets, even though, of course, it still sucks.
12/30/07  03:05am

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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 1560963


 In memory of Borris

I’m sorry to hear that. I know you tried hard to get him back to eating. You did all you could.
01/01/08  06:45pm

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Cooperthepython
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   Message To: Repfanatic   In reference to Message Id: 1564397


 In memory of Borris

Thanks guys. I really miss the little dude but life goes on and I have to focus on giving my other snakes the best that I can. It was a mystery why he died but I cant let that get in the way of me loving for my other reptiles. I will eventually get another Western but for now I just want to take a break from them. Thank you all for the advise and your kind words.

~CHAD~~
01/02/08  01:45am


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