We came across Mark at Trinity Vet Centre through a recommendation of Maureen Collinson after we rescued a Royal Python who had clearly been neglected & had some nasty injuries.
We now use & highly recommend Mark at Trinity as he has such caring qualities and shows he cares about the animals he works with.
A little about the rescue below:
After we was called by a friend to help a sickly Royal Python an acquaintance of his had, we was told & found the below…
The poor Royal had a nasty hole/wound in his throat, coated with sticky substance, this was from the Exo Terra dial thermometer used in his viv.
He climbed over it & caught himself on the sticky pad & was left to hang there, thus tearing his neck. His previous owner was clueless & left him dangling by his neck, she then went out for the day & left the Royal unsupervised, after instructions by a friend she turned the viv onto it’s side.
Once she returned home, the Royal had freed himself but now had an open wound & had wedged himself under the bulb guard (luckily the bulb was not on), not sure if she tugged him to get him out.
When we arrived we took him out & put him on the bed to see how he was & he was arching his back in a strange way, we gently checked him over & he seemed to have a lot of broken bones & towards his back end, he had an area which dipped inwards quite badly, he also had a Respiratory Infection (RI), was underweight & had retained shed.
This is when we got in contact with Mark who was more then helpful throughout the treatment.
He gave the Royal antibiotics & nebulised the royal to free him of his respiratory infection & to get him back to good health.
The Royals open wound was also stitched up nicely, he also had an X-Ray which confirmed the suspicions of broken bones, horrifically this snake had around 50 broken bones, the Royal was underweight & was given a few tube feeds to get some nutrition into his system.
The royal is now doing extremely well, feeding weekly and growing like he should be.
A big thank you to Mark at Trinity Vet Centre!