"Princess Skidmark"

Well nothing spoils two days in a row like dealing with one of my ball pythons, an extra orange female baby known as Julius. (or Julia, since we just recently discovered she's a girl) I've taken to nicknaming her Princess Skidmark, a title she has earned quite easily. The nickname is a reference to a joke from Two and a Half Men when Berta refers to Jake as 'Prince Skidmark', a reference to the brown streaks in his underwear. If you still don't get it, its the result you get when you fart only to discover it was, in fact, a shart. Now I want you take this information in and make a good guess as to why I've come to call my hatchling ball python this...
It was this ball python, my second one, that taught me how nasty ball pythons can be. I have never heard my first, bigger ball python flatulate, yet it was little Julia that woke me up at 3 in the morning with such a loud, wet sound. I go to see what's up, and by peering in the cage, discover a snake's tail lifted in the air, cloaca exposed and a trail of excrement leading from it, and have never seen a snake with such a smug face. Fast forward 2 weeks, now between yesterday and today. Earlier yesterday, I was enjoying a nice match of Halo on the good ole' XBox 360 with a little Julia relaxing halfway on the gaming controller and on my lap. The reality of the situation was that she was a ticking time bomb. Just as I was getting more sucked into the virtual reality, I am suddenly sucked back to Earth by the immediate wet sensation on my shirt, and look down as both gas and excrement escape the vent of my little ball python. All I could do was watch in disgust and contemplate how in the world am I going to get up and not drip this @$#! all over my mom's leather couch. In the meantime, Julia seems quite content in the crime she's committed. I eventually manage to change my clothes without being noticed or spreading mess.
Jump into the future a little over 12 hours. Here I am laying on my bed, browsing the wonderful content of this and other great herp sites way past midnight, several minutes before this post in fact. I decide that the little ball python must be clear now that she has relieved herself earlier. After all, the older, much cleaner ball python usually goes weeks before relieving herself. Unfortunately, Julia has proven me wrong once more. I had taken her out so she can go for a slither while I learn about some great herp stories. It was but in the middle of a sentence, had a familiar sensation returned to me. I look down to see the ball python straining even more crap out of herself for the second time within 24 hours, and lays her load all over my shirt yet again, as well as the bed sheets. Lovely.
The moral of the story is that I've decided that I'll be waiting for my cleaner ball python to finish shedding before I hold any more snakes for a long while. (And in case you didn't know, these are the only two snakes I have...)
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And now a picture of Julia in all her turd-filled glory.
http://i.imgur.com/J3Q2FYi.jpg

Oh man can I relate to this.

I cannot remember the last time I spot-cleaned because the past 4 times my girl has pooped, she has either done it on me, the carpet, or the couch. :rolleyes:

Only heard my girl fart once, but man, is she the master of the silent but deadly ones.

Haha I've had a similar situation to happen to me!
I had been talking to this girl for about a month n a half. We went on a ton of dates n this girl seemed perfect. Beautiful blonde southern girl. Doesn't get any better then that!

Well long story short, I finally felt it was okay to invite her over to my house. She was instantly hooked on all the animals in my house n was dying to hold a snake. She then decided she wanted to hold my big snake. (Get your head out of the gutter) So she preceded to pick up my 8 foot, 3700g coral albino boa. She sat down on the couch with him n everything seemed fine. Well jokes on me... It was all but fine. Dyno then took the biggest crap I've ever seen ACROSS THE BACK OF HER NECK! :rolleye2:

This was a confusing moment for my snake n I cause I couldn't tell if he didnt like her, or he was hookin his dad up by gettin this girl in the shower with me ;)

Unfortunately that relationship didnt work out to me being military :( So i am still very much single but thank Dyno for that experience :D

Hi,

It was this photoshoot using a silk shirt as a backdrop that taught me to look at both ends before deciding whether to handle that day or not. :mad:

http://satanswombat.googlepages.com/...shirtcrap1.JPG


dr del

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that's happened to.. Had my 1st ball on the bed with me as I watched tv only to find he'd left a surprise for me under the sheets later that night. :rage:

This just happened to me the other night. Allure was roaming and the. All of a sudden got very stiff. He was hidden under a fold of the blanket I lay down over my comforter (in case of situations like this). Took the flap of blanket off of him to see him about to take a crap. I managed to get him into his tank before be blew but still had to wash the blanket. So far this has happened with urates and poop. :/ too bad snakes can't be taught manners. Hopefully your Julia is good to hold now lol. Twice is one day is crazy.