blood? Cloacal area?

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Originally Posted by dr del

Wow,

I have never heard of the shedding peens:eek:

My male is shedding at the moment so in a day or so I shall be inspecting the vent of the shed skin with a fully engaged prurient curiosity :)


I know when my tarantula shed she sheds her sex organs and becomes virginal once more as thats the best way to sex them if you have access to a shed.

Are they noticeable on the shed skin? because if they are wouldn't this be used as sex determination?



dr del

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Dr del ,you scare me :eek: :P .To much curiosity will get you some poo in the face :8: :8:

glad you found an answer to this. ;)

Very interesting!!! Glad you got an answer.

Now call your "herp vet" back up and let her know that she is... a little off but next time she'll now know. ;)

very glad this was posted b/c this also happened with my snake. confirms he's a boy too. yikes, poor thing :omg:

I wonder if you vet is confusing snake behaviour with green iguana behaviour. A friend of mine that does iggy rescue has done a lot of reading on some theories that male iggy's are reactive to hormonal changes in their female keepers and have shown heightened aggression during certain times in the woman's cycle. Sexually mature male iggy's will do a grab, bite type behaviour during attempts to mate and will do that with humans if a receptive female iggy isn't present. The more you try to push them away the more aggressive they can get. My friend wonders though if it's unrelated to a breeding reaction as much as it's just "the big dumb human's scent is different...I think I shall bite it!" LOL

I wonder if your vet just made the leap from "well if an iggy can react, maybe a snake can too" sort of thing.

Now this is worrying me - I was sure my Emily is a girl - but whenever she's out recently she keeps going to my husband - trouble is he HATES snakes :eek:

emily is probably doing the same thing cats do. ever notice cats go to the person in the room who dislikes them the most LOL

Ok,


He shed. I went and cut the shed apart to get a good pic - not a sign of peens.

Now I know he's a male cos he's a daddy.I can see where his spurs were and can understand there being some minor abrasions at the point the shed pulls away from the body but I wanted to see shed peens dammit.

Any one else wanna chip in on this?

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...6/00_00001.JPG


And before anyone asks the black stuff is damp peat from the wetbox and the reason its not a good pic is cos I'm a wally :P


dr del