A reptile's sight

Here's the link to the snake farting article. Yes, it is real, folks.

And Judy, Smulkin's not kidding. Farting is our middle son's preferred method of defense. :lol:

Oops. Almost forgot: http://www.anapsid.org/snakefart.html

LOL! When I meet him next month, I'll pretend I don't know that! :P :wink: (I'm so psyched! Can hardly wait!)

poof!

Me too, Judy!!! :D Is anyone else joining us? (For those of you who don't know or may have forgotten, we're talking about the Northern Virginia Reptile Expo in Manassass on May 8th.)

I'll post a new (fresh) invitation on the Site Events forum!

anapsid.org is old school as far as herp sites. Melissa has been around for a while, one of the first all purpose herp sites.

Regardless of what you see on her site, and even tho she's written a book on iguana care, she's against us keeping herps. I've read things that trouble me.

Yeah...she's a bit of an enigma, isn't she?

Thanks for the disclaimer, Godfather. It's always a good idea to check out several sources and find a good concensus. We generally defer to NERD's care sheets and the information we find here. I think Smulkin was looking for information on how snakes see, found the snake fart thing, and then started exploring the site. I did wonder a bit when she said ball pythons really don't require much humidity.

Ayup.

And I wouldn'tve bothered linking those that I did had they not been based on previous studies cited. The portion on ball pythons and trouble eating was interesting in it never occured to me to try (as a latter resort) taking the snake out for handling and having someone (who abviously isn't handling) sneak the mouse into the cage while the snake is out.

Bit odd on that non-keeping stance indeed. I googled the site up and only read a few sections (posted) and didn't know she didn't condone keeping - her loss.