Omg gross!!!!!

Ok well this is honestly really gross so if you mildy squeamish dont read on...

I was handling one of my BPs that I havnt held in a while and I was wondering why he was getting so fat but I was like w/e. He hasnt gone to the bathroom in the last 2 or 3 weeks also so I thought it would eventually jsut happen. Well he kept trying to back away off my hands rather than just slither forward and explore which confused me, then when I was holding him up looking at the computer I felt something warm on my leg. He started to pee and drip. So I was like gross crap let me hold him above the garbage can and the pee continued to drip out so I was confused as to why it wasnt in urate form. Then after the drip sped up and weakened it lookedl ike he was pushing and out fell a urate, a split second after that, It looks like he shot out like 2 shots worth of pee and I was like WOAH WTF?!? Then he proceeded to take a nice long poop and I mean it is a lot of waste for one snake. Is it normal to have him let so much solids and liquids out at the same time because he hasnt gone in weeks??

Hahaha... welcome to the club!! :8: I think we've all had a snake explode on us, and sometimes it comes in both liquid & solid form - so yes, that is completely normal. One time Toby went poop while hanging around my neck, and it shot right down into my bra. Talk about a weird feeling! :weirdface Now go do your laundry, LOL.

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

Hahaha... welcome to the club!! :8: I think we've all had a snake explode on us, and sometimes it comes in both liquid & solid form - so yes, that is completely normal. One time Toby went poop while hanging around my neck, and it shot right down into my bra. Talk about a weird feeling! :weirdface Now go do your laundry, LOL.

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Stand back fellas, she's all mine!:D

My female het for Pied pooed over the weekend, just after I weighed all of my snakes. She filled up the corner of her enclosure, so I thought I'd weigh her again.

She lost 127 grams. She now weighs 848 grams EMPTY.

WOW, I wish I could lose 13.7% of my body weight by just going to the bathroom.:rolleye2:

Jim Smith

Yes, unfortunately it happens that way sometimes. One of my mine decided to do that during a reptile presentation I was doing for a kindergarten class... :O

That's exactly the reason I don't handle any of mine with swelling towards the vent.

You'll learn, grasshopper, you'll learn! :rofl:

its amazing how big of stinkin logs (linclon logs) they can produce :weirdface

My year old ball python dropped a bigger deuce than my dog, lol...

It even looked like a dog turd, didnt smell like one though...

i have yet to be pooed on :banana:

::knock on wood::

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Stand back fellas, she's all mine!:D

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LOL... I'm a bit scared now. :weirdface :rofl:

Liquid coming out while peeing is normal. The reason snakes produce urates is because they can absorb so much of the liquid they ingest that it comes out solid. A benefit in the wild when sometimes water is not available. In captivity though they always have access to water, more then they need, so their bodies don't always absorb all of it so it just comes out as liquid again. Usually people don't notice the liquid in their enclosures because it gets absorbed into the substrate.