Marnie's Snakes

[angrygamer]

*heh, I meant CONDRADICTS not CONTRACTS in my first post. Too late to edit!

Im curious, was she correct on the sex and species of your snake?

I'm still not sure, I posted some pics some time back, but I couldn't get him stay still enough...

When she sexed him, I asked her if she needed to probe him, and she said that should could tell by visualization.

As far as the species goes, someone on here thought he was a Wandering, and for the life of me I can't find the post.

However, after looking up pics of t.radix and t.vagrans comparatively to answer your question, he still looks more like a wandering.

Very much enjoyed reading these two very different reports on a visit to the vet, both well written giving us a good insight into you opposite experiences.
As to your question about who to trust, my opinion is if the internet people you refer to are the members of this site then they get my vote over the vast majority of money making machines called vets.

Well I mean there were things like using aspen and the danger of too high of a humidity to Garters that you all are familiar with but all of this just seemed to be in left field to her.

I have read up on a lot of resources on the 'net, this forum being one of them. When I referred to "people on the internet", heh, I did mean you guys in part but don't take any offense; I was thinking about what that sounds like through her ears.

Part of her bio reads:

Dr. xxx is a long tenured veterinarian with an interest in Chinese herbology, homeopathy, and accupuncture for small animals. She obtained her degree at xxx State. Dr. xxx loves a good cup of strong coffee and collecting gecko figures.

At any rate, one of my old Unreal Tournament and Call of Duty 4 clanmates is a vet. I haven't talked to him in a while, but I PM'd him this morning about picking out a good exotic animal vet. He might be able to give me some advice. Heck, he might even know someone.

[chris-uk]

Part of her bio reads:

Dr. xxx is a long tenured veterinarian with an interest in Chinese herbology, homeopathy, and accupuncture for small animals. She obtained her degree at xxx State. Dr. xxx loves a good cup of strong coffee and collecting gecko figures.

Any vet that believes that homeopathy is an appropriate treatment for animals is a vet I would actively avoid. I think there is an arguable benefit in human, but how many animals will respond to a placebo? Chinese herbology... there's some benefits, but most what is good in herbology science has turned into medicine, what's left is some nice, natural (but less effective) medicine and smelly bowl of potpourri. Accupuncture I give more credence for musculoskeletal treatment, it's great for treating knotted muscles and it's surprisingly relaxing.
None of these alternative "medicines" have a lot of credibility for treating animals as a replacement for proper treatments. Nope, I'd avoid a vet that put that in their bio.