disgusting rite of passage

Well it finally happened, my boa took a crap on me.

Only not just a crap, a pee too, solid and liquid.

Only not just on me, really more on the couch right next to me.

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

Ohhhh nooooo [emoji33]


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Hope it wasn't too big of a crap... :D

My black pastel did that shortly after I got her. Well, minus the poop part. I wasn't even sure what happened at first. I just felt a wet spot down by my leg. Then I looked down and saw something white and I was like... Oh, yeah. Urates.

I've never been peed on by a snake before. I've only cleaned the solid white urates out of the substrate, so I had no idea part of it was liquid too. Made an awful mess on my recliner. I think the urates bleached the fabric a little.

My corn snake managed worse - wearing a Tshirt and she pooped right on the collar just where my nose had to pass to remove it. Worst thing I ever smelt.

Happened to me too!

I was actually relaxing and on my phone and didn't notice that she had pooped
on me until she was guiltily slithering away and was smearing it:rage:
Ended up just hacking my FAVORITE shirt to bits getting it off, there was noo way I was getting that in my hair!

Welcome to the club! My SD retic has done that to me probably close to a dozen times and she's only 6 months old hahaha!

Just happened to me! Got on my pillow cases too :( It was pretty gross!


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Originally Posted by jmcrook

Welcome to the club! My SD retic has done that to me probably close to a dozen times and she's only 6 months old hahaha!

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

oh the fun of keeping snakes! Haven't been pooped on yet but of course now that I said it... haha
Amazon tree boas can be 'flippy' when handling, where they just start throwing themselves around and spazzing out. They also like to pee and musk. When trying to get one of mine into her tub so I could clean the cage, she started spazzing and her tail was going wild, she ended up flinging musk around right into my hair. Such a lovely smell.
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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.