disgusting rite of passage

Oh hellll no - I hope this never happens to me! I am very particular of her handling times and because I have only 1 snake I know when she's gone and when she may need to go...taking pre-cautionary measure from now on LOL

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Originally Posted by dkatz4

Lol, the frequency of stories like this is what keeps me from getting a SD!

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Hahah don't let that deter you! Aside from their incredibly high metabolism (and resultant bowel movements) they are absolutely incredible snakes. So much more active and inquisitive than anything else I've kept. But yeah, expect to clean up snake pee about every other day, at least with a fast growing hatchling. Wouldn't trade her for anything though!

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Originally Posted by jmcrook

Hahah don't let that deter you! Aside from their incredibly high metabolism (and resultant bowel movements) they are absolutely incredible snakes. So much more active and inquisitive than anything else I've kept. But yeah, expect to clean up snake pee about every other day, at least with a fast growing hatchling. Wouldn't trade her for anything though!

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Oh you're preaching to the choir; i'm totally enamored with them, its just that right now my kids are young enough to keep me mired in poop most of the time, and my 2 cats think of the litter box as just one of many options, so for a few years my two-movements-per-month boa (or boas if i get my way!) is as much upkeep as i can muster. :D

Pooped upon, check. Now for the second right of passage it must hit you in the eye, mouth or up the nose. If you want to pass this one, I recommend a projectile musker - garters are a good choice with their poopeller tail spin style, a male timor python might be another. One of the neat things I've learned about timors is that males are extreme muskers. So much that you can basically sex them by this behavior alone. My girl seldom musks but when she does it's the typical form of a little white smear and unappetizing odor. The male takes things to another level entirely in regards to force and content. I swear he holds his poo too so he can spray musk and crap simultaneously. He's improving with consistent, gentle, handling but the first time I laid hands on him his aim was true and it nailed me square in the face. Can't say it was the first time, after I started working with garters, but the difference is a light drizzle to a hail storm. I might have even staggered a bit from the force.

ok, so two interesting developments from later that night:
1. obviously, after the "incident" i put him back to get to cleaning - better part of a bottle of carpet shampoo on the couch and my shorts soaking in soapy water in the poo-poo bucket that i luckily still have from potty training my oldest- but upon revisiting him to see if he had left any more in his tank (and to call him hurtful names) i could see clearly that he had given himself a bath in his water bowl, it is big enough to soak in, but he never actually goes in except after smearing poop all over me and my furniture apparently. So bully for him; being the middle of the night, i had to settle for a Pur'ell sponge bath.

2. After said sponge bath, and sheepishly admitting to my wife why i was so late to bed, my newborn daughter wakes up for a feed and diaper change. So, of course, she pooped on me. And not to be too graphic, but it was really more of a loaded fart (parents, you know how bm's are the first few weeks) so it actually sort of sprayed me - prompting another hand-sanitizer spa treatment and my third change of pants for the evening.

So yeah, good times... good times.

Haha, if you don't keep a journal you should start one with today's events as entry #1. :D

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Originally Posted by dkatz4

Only if my wife asks, tell her it was just on me :shh:

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lol probably a smart move

So far I've only been peed on by my girlfriend's adult bp. Was holding the bp and all of a sudden felt liquid hit my leg. Out of reflex (from opening soda too soon) I quickly moved the snake away from the couch I was sitting on. So it just got on the floor, me and one unfortunate pillow.

Barely missed a poop. My little fellow went a minute after I put him back in his tank.