How to Treat Ill Appetite in Pet Snakes

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On behalf of Expert Village I'm Nicole from Pet Kingdom and I'm here to tell you about sick snakes. A common problem among house hold pet snakes is appitite. Sometimes captive breed snakes will come home and they change in the environment, stress due to moving will often cause them to not want to eat. This is also very common wild caught species from moving a wild area into your home is going to be very stressful for the snake and also probably cause it to not want to eat. If your snake is a juvenile you may only want to give it about 3 or 4 weeks before you start taking action if your snake is not eating. If it's an adult you can probably wait one maybe two months at least I would guess to start taking action if your snake is not eating. One of the things you can do to help your snake is using a product called appetite plus. You can put a couple of drops directly in your animals mouth and hopefull this will stimulate your snake to want to eat. Now if this does not work it's time to force feed the snake, one of the ways to force feed a snake is using chicken baby food or beef baby food. It actually works really well it's nutritional you can add your own vitamin supplements to it if you would like before you force feed it. What you need to do is just draw it up into a syringe of course without the needle open your snakes mouth and just kind of force it down this through, not the syringe but. I would only put the tip of the syringe only to the back of this jaw area just to where he's at the beginning of the throat. You don't want to gag your snake you just want it to make sure it goes down into the throat. Now if this is prejected I would highly recommend taking it to a vet. Another thing you can do to help force feed your snake is to feed it frozen rodents, you can buy these at your local pet store. A lot of captive breeders and hobbiest feed their snakes frozen food simply because it seems that a captive animal should be fed frozen food. If you need to feed your snake frozen food by force what you would have to do is restrain your snakes head and open it up. If you can get the head of the rodents inside of the snakes mouth instincts will usually take over and they will begin to draw the rodent down into their belly. This is an awkward action to watch because their jaws do dislocate both here on the sides and both top and bottom in front. They dislocate their jaws into 4 separte sections and they can move them back and forth to draw the rodent back into their mouth.

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