Sneezies!

Hayden's playing with my hair and ears right now and I keep hearing this little noise coming from him. It's like a mini sneeze and sometimes a little sniff. It's sort of cute. Combined with the random mouth opening, I'm sort of suspicious that it may be an RI. Or else he's just being adorable. Aw.

is his mouth & nostrils clear of any residue ? Some snake just make a little hiss when your handling them or when they are about to shed..but u never can be too careful..:)

Are your temps and humidity at normal levels?

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

Are your temps and humidity at normal levels?

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Yessir.

It might just be his normal breathing that you can never really hear because he's never that close to your ear. Someone correct me if I'm wrong in that assumption. If temps and humidity are good then RI chances are low. Mouth opening isn't bad when they're exploring but if it becomes more frequent than random i would start to worry.

The open mouth this usually happens when there is such a buildup of fluid that they can't breathe normally, so if the RI got to that point, you would have already heard wheezing.

Sometimes I hear a slight hiss or wheeze come from a snake during handling. Its nothing to worry about, but thats great that you are developing a sense of what to look for in his overall health. Some people are just completely oblivious to otherwise obvious external cues to overall health. One lady with a snake came into the pet store asking why her snake had been "shedding" for 6 months. It had probably 3 retained eyecaps and wrinkly, dry, retained shed skin on about 50% of its body. Some people, I swear!

He doesn't really open his mouth that often [not even every time I handle him], so I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. He's probably just .. stretching.. or trying to intimidate the television.

They open their mouths like that and yawn to smell the air as well as their flickering tongues.

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Originally Posted by resisted

.. or trying to intimidate the television.

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Just wait till you're watching a TV programme with your snake sitting contentedly on your lap and suddenly the channel changes and you discover your snake's got his tail wrapped round the remote control happily changing channels - and he won't give it back to you. Of course he does this just at the most exciting part of the programme you were watching and you find you're now watching Animal Planet and it's a snake programme:rolleyes:

whly crug Lady did that to me one time and it was PBS's Nova... some really old show on the Reptiles of Arfica. I covered her eyes when they showed to ball pythons mating j/k... she is still to young to know that stuff;) She was the one who stwitched it from Animal Planet to PBS right at the time they were talking about the "African Royal Python" funny stuff. I watch TV with my 3 main BPs that will stay put for more than 30 sec. Baby though always curls up in my hooded sweat shirt pocket and refuses to come out, Lady sits in my lap glued to the moving immages on the screen and Angel will be curled around my neck trying to tangel her self in my hair... watching TV with them is a event in and of it's self.