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Well was finally did her in was euthanasia, but what sickened her nobody knows. In 2010, she had a respiratory infection over winter. That cleared up well with treatment and she was fine. Next winter though, it came back, despite our insulating the room and adding a 280 watt, 36"x24" heat panel. We treated it, and she remained sick. It came and went for a year, worsening to pneumonia, despite medicines. She was in and out of our vet's office, having cultures, bloodwork, xrays, ultrasounds. Whatever strain of bacteria was in there, we couldn't ID it, and it didn't respond to any treatment. Meanwhile, she's refusing all food, and losing weight rapidly. A few months later, I noticed one of the caudal scales on her tail was red and inflamed, but there was no external injury. The next day, it was 4 scales. The third day it was 8, and rather foul smelling. An emergency trip to the vet revealed that she had a massive infection in her tail, but even the vet couldn't say how it happened. In the few hours we were at the vet, it had spread even further. The doc said we could amputate the bottom 2 feet of tail, but that would be traumatic, and there was no guarantee that would stop the infection as at this point, it seemed systemic. We decided to have her euthanized, to spare her any more suffering. It was devastating.

She was certainly clever, opening doors wasn't her only talent. She could also drain the bathtub, open the fridge (but why??) and manage to knock everything off my desk in one fell swoop. She had a somewhat short life, but was well pampered throughout.

Germany. But I think what would alleviate your Ophidiophobia more than my location is the fact that Julius is now deceased.

Close, summer squash. ;)

Most of the people that visited either in LA or Berlin knew Julius was present, so not too many odd reactions there. She did go out in public quite often though, and that's where we had fun. Most memorable was the time I had called the LAPD for something, and once they had dealt with it, they noticed the snakes in my car (we were moving them to a friend's house while we redid the floors). One officer asked if he could handle them, and soon a half dozen or so officers were posing for photos with my snakes.