No Wonder His Skin's Stretched!

[rabernet]

Remember earlier this week I asked about power feeding because I wanted to make sure I wasn't power feeding Kashmire? And that I was OCD'ing over his scales seeming stretched (his scales look like beads because of the spaces you can see between scales).

So, I decided to measure him tonight again. Assuming the snake measurer software is accurate, Kashmire has grown 2.2" in 8 days!!!!

On 8-24 he measured 18.3" and today (using the same point of reference for measuring against), on 9-1 he measured 20.5"!

Wow!!! No gray eyes yet, but I think he's outgrowing his skin and needs a shed soon or he's gonna pop right out of his skin! LOL

[rabernet]

Oh, and I measured using two different pictures from each day (so four measurements) and I get the same measurements for each day!

[mr~python]

i read in my ball python care book that skin inbetween the scales is a sign of obesity, which is not healthy for a BP or any snake.

[rabernet]

He's anything but fat. He is nice and slim (but not skinny) and has GREAT muscle tone! Believe me, he shocked me tonight with how tight his grip has gotten since I first got him. He was sick when I first got him, had internal parasites and was not thriving. Now that those have been treated, he's growing like a weed!


Robin

[rabernet]

Here's the picture I took tonight to measure him. Does he look fat or obese to you?

[mr~python]

he looks beatiful, wow he must be groing a lot if his skin is stretched.he doesnt look fat to me.

[khara]

He's beautiful. He doesn't look overweight to me. Maybe he's just making up for when he wasn't feeling too well...

[new2BP]

robin, kash looks great. must be really satisfying to know how she used to be and how she is now. great work.

[frankykeno]

Kash looks wonderful Robin. He may just be going through a growth spurt like our Baby did right around his age. Remember she did that really fast back to back shed thing, only 2 weeks between sheds and I was just amazed. Punkin also has done a fairly quick shed schedule, only 1 month. Perhaps Kash is just growing and catching up from his illness.


~~Jo~~

[rabernet]

LOL, I'm sort of embarassed that the picture is next to a pack of cigarettes, but I know the pack is exactly 4" long.

I'm thrilled with my guy. His belly's JUST starting to turn pink, so hopefully we'll have a shed in the next few weeks!

That's not a very complimentary picture of him, a little blurry, and I was also using my free hand to keep de-clawed kitty from coming up to sniff him (she's not a hunter at all, just sits and watches spiders other small things crawling across the floor, never touching them. I was more afraid Kash would think her white paw was a mouse! LOL)