should i be worried, wet mouse bum= alot of aspen

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Originally Posted by wilomn

It is good that you are pleased with your decision to switch.

I wonder about your manmade babies though. How many generations of captive production are in your manmades? 10? 12? I can't imagine it being any more than that.

I wonder if 12 generations, being extremely generous in that 12, is enough to change millions of years worth of reptile evolution.

What you do to PROTECT your manmade investments is good. However, it has little to do with those investments ability to ingest without harm bits of substrate.

I believe the original question was will the snake be OK, or should the OP be worried about it. He was not asking what to do to best protect his manmade investment.

It is often the case in an online forum that the question morphs, heh heh heh, into something other than what it began as.

Your answer is good. But not for this question.

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well played wilomn:gj:

Wilo couldn't have said that any better lol

Man-made snakes?

"What you do to PROTECT your manmade investments is good. However, it has little to do with those investments ability to ingest without harm bits of substrate." -wilomn

^ think about that for more then a second

I've seen my bigger snakes swallow enough aspen to really freak me out, and so far none has had a problem.

I've tried the paper towel trick, even newspaper, somehow they keep managing to get off the paper. :colbert:

The worst was my big het pied female, she dropped her rat into the water bowl. When she finally fished it out it was covered in aspen. I tried to take it away, and nearly got my hand taken off for my trouble. She finally consumed the rat and what seemed like at least a handful of aspen. I was seriously freaked!

However, that was 3 months ago, and she's fine. I do believe I noticed some shavings in her poo, but I don't make it a habit to dissect my snake's poo. :puke:

I wouldn't worry too much.

I do keep a long, thin pair of tweezers which I sometimes use with the utmost care to remove a shaving or two poking out of a snake mouth. But that is NOT something everyone can do. My snakes trust me, and if I move slowly enough I can help them get rid of shavings instead of swallowing them.

Gale