Anyone make diapers for garter snakes?
1 Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM • Herp Collection

George George is still not dead, but he’s getting increasingly, well, incontinent. You will recall that our male Plains Garter Snake (Thamnophis radix) was rather floppy; in fact, he seemed to be using his front half to drag his back half along like a wagon, as though he’d suffered some nerve damage that prevented the full use of his muscles back there. It seems to be getting worse: now his poop is having trouble clearing the vent, and he’s usually so twisted around back there that he, um, shits himself and needs to be cleaned up. George apparently needs some Depends, though I don’t think they come in his size.

He still eats well and has a good disposition. Go figure.

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Cerastes1, June 16 at 3:25 PM:

What happened to him? Maybe a weekly soak in a moistbox or increasing humidity in his enclosure would help.

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