emaciated???

[MasSalvaje]

kingsnake.com Classifieds: Locality-Specific 2009 CB Plains Garter Snakes

is it just my eyes, or is that baby snake extremely emaciated the last lower third of it's body? It kind of concerned me so I thought I'd ask.

I don't know if it looks emaciated because it looks good everywhere except the lower third, it looks more like an injury or birth defect to me. Maybe a retained first shed?

-Thomas

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I have seen that kind of emaciation (lower third) in a few cases. In my cases, it has always been either a baby refuses to eat for too long and that is where they begin to show signs of being too thin, or the snake is sick with a blister disease (I got a couple babies from someone at hamburg once a few years ago and the next day they were covered HEAD TO TOE in blisters and the lower third of them was flattened like that and two days later they dropped dead ). Usually if I have a non feeder, soon after that back half starts caving in like that I lose them. This doesn't happen often but it's a definite pattern I see.

[MasSalvaje]

I have seen that kind of emaciation (lower third) in a few cases. In my cases, it has always been either a baby refuses to eat for too long and that is where they begin to show signs of being too thin, or the snake is sick with a blister disease (I got a couple babies from someone at hamburg once a few years ago and the next day they were covered HEAD TO TOE in blisters and the lower third of them was flattened like that and two days later they dropped dead ). Usually if I have a non feeder, soon after that back half starts caving in like that I lose them. This doesn't happen often but it's a definite pattern I see.

That is new info to me, thanks. Luckily I can proudly say I have never had to deal with an emaciated Garter.

I am with ThamMan, the add says it has only eaten two times, I am willing to bet it was one or two worms at a time and not fed more than once a week.

-Thomas