I’ve had a ball python for over a year now. She has always sneezed a little during handling, and even occasionally I could hear her wheezing in her enclosure. But it has gotten significantly worse over the past few days. While handling her now it is almost constant, and it is much louder. And I noticed that her belly is very pink, but I don’t think she is going into shed quite yet. For now I turned off the heating pad. I don’t have a thermometer for it either so I have no idea how hot it is getting. Her hide is close to being directly over the heating pad, but off to the side a couple of inches. She always pushes the substrate I have for her(large wooden chips) aside which gets her very close the bottom of the enclosure despite me constantly moving the substrate back in place. There hasn’t been any major changes to her enclosure in terms of the location of her heat sources and hide. I’ll post pictures of her tomorrow to show you how pink she is.
