Chakra--Brazillian Rainbow Boa

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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!