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Published: 2005-01-14 07:02:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 627; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 49
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This is Chakra, my beautiful rainbow boa. This is her at only 8 weeks old when I got her. No one wanted her because the tip of her tail has a little kink in it, but look at that face! I just had to have her! She is such a sweet-natured snake, so loveable, with an amazing personality. She loves to sit around my neck or climb up onto the top rim of my glasses when we sit at the computer together. And would you believe she gives kisses? She loves to give kisses! This is her story:
Chakra is now blind in her left eye. She retained her eye spectacles for about 6 sheds, and what I thought would be a promising trip to the vet only made it worse. It continued to get worse until infection finally settled in. She was seen by my new vet, an exotics specialist. I had a choice to make -- we could kill the entire structure of her eye in order to kill the severe infection or try ointment antibiotics which could not guarantee that the infection would not spread through her systemically and she very likely would succumb. So in order to save her life, the vet had to take her eye. She's still as sweet as the day I got her... such a little trooper considering everything she's been through. I absolutely adore her! She's my baby girl! I teast her sometimes and call her my one-eyed trouser snake!
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What a beautiful snake and an even more beautiful story 
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She's beautiful... and I'm glad she was able to be saved, even if she can't see so good
Eyesight isn't what they rely on anyway, it's not as bad a human going blind
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Yeah, I'm really thankful she was able to be saved. She still has such a sweet spirit... what a little trooper!
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Aww sorry to her about her eye.... my snakes have retained their lenses before,,, usually come off if you rub them or use tweezers (only if u r very very very experienced) and tease them off. but atleast she is ok now
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She hasn't had any problems since losing her left eye, but she has trouble shedding the skin around the little kink in the end of her tail! She's a sweetheart though!
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Aw poor thing! Shes beautiful, I love rainbow boas, so gorgeous. Sounds like shes had a tough time, bless her. I have a blood python who has trouble with her eye caps too, our first vet was useless. We now have a better vet who doesn't get out his "bumper book of animals" when treating her.
Hope shes all recovered!
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She went thru an ordeal, but I had a good vet. She's all better now, and just as sweet as ever!
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She went thru an ordeal, but I had a good vet. She's all better now, and just as sweet as ever!
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Beautiful snake!
My husband's terrifed of them, so I can't have any. :\
Nice to see someone else who takes in rescues; though mine have only been birds and rodents, it's the same no matter which species you take.
I've had several unwanted pets due to "flaws" like feather picking, missing toes, misaligned beaks (that poor bird, the plucked, missing toes, misaligned beak one was given up because his owners thought he was 'ugly'), biting when hit (gee, imagine that), starved nearly to death (one of my leopard geckos) and other physical problems.
They're just as good as a 'perfect' pet. It's a pity most owners can't see past the physical.
Your boa is gorgeous.
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I'm so glad you like her! She's is such a sweet snake! About 30" by now... getting so big!
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What an incredible little baby! She IS a trouper! Wow, I'm so glad she's doing fine now after retaining her eye spectacles. My snakes usually retains the tip of his tail after every shed, I have to take it off myself 
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Totally, you'd expect her to be a very angry little creature after all her troubles! She's absolutely precious, and she's be STUNNING when she gets bigger! I adore rainbow boas, their colors just take my breath away!
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She is a sweetheart! How big do you think she might get now after she's had an injury?
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I don't believe that her injury with stunt her growth any at all... as long as she retains a regular and healthy feeding habit, I think she'll grow normally! Maybe if she had had a spinal injury or an injury directly involving the skeletal/muscular system, she might not grow very quickly. But since she mainly had an epidermal problem, it really shouldn't affect her. So you can probably expect a big, fat rainbow boa in a couple a' years!
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Aww, what a sweet baby. Such as shame about her eye, though. I've been thinking about getting one of these beauties for myself some day.
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Yeah, they are such wonderful personable snakes. If you'd like I can give you the name of my breeder. He ships overnight cross country. Lemme know!
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Unfortunately it will be a long time before I can add another pet to my household, probably a year or more. Thanks though!
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Hey, no prob! 
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Three cats, a ball python, and a grey-banded kingsnake that I'm keeping for a friend. Oh, and a boyfriend. All in one apartment.
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*lol* that was funny! My guy is so adorable with my turtles! I had to get him one of his own for x-mas. They're just too cute together!
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one eyed trouser snake?
tail and eye or not she's beautiful. I
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awwww, poor thing- is she more skittish now, or anything like that? gorgeous, though
#Vani
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No she is not skittish at all. She's even sweeter than she was before. She is just so precious! Curious little devil though! Wants to check everything out! and I mean everything!
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Very beautiful rainbow boa!!! And a nice representation of her!
- bacchus.
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Thanks! Glad you like her! I'll tell her you said she was beautiful! 
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Dammit! Duplicates again! 
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Thanks! Glad you like her! I'll tell her you said she was beautiful!
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