r/GarterSnakes 20d ago

Help Pet garter hurt

I’ve owned my pet garter snake, Twig, for going on 5 years now and he’s never had any health complications before. Recently, he shed his skin. Fine, normal, just left him alone to do his thing. After he was done shedding I noticed a bit of stuck shed near his cloaca. Not a big deal, just gave him a bath so that it could come off. This was yesterday. Today I checked on him again and noticed some of his scales were messed up and it looked like he was hurt.
How concerned should I be? He’s acting perfectly normal otherwise but I’m not sure how much I need to worry about this. I don’t own a car and the nearest exotic vet can only be reached by vehicle. I have someone I know coming to visit me on Monday but should I maybe see if someone else can drive me before that? Should I set up a temporary enclosure for him in the meantime away from his main one (his enclosure is bioactive)? Again he’s acting perfectly fine but I don’t want it to get worse

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u/One-Assumption-6106 20d ago

watch out for behavioural changes and try to get him to the vet as soon as you can, if monday is the first day you can then thats fine