Poop or regurge?

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Trust your nose the smell of a regurge is nothing you will forget.

How bad does it stink?
A gurge will literally clear the room.

Heck, regurge had my the dogs running for the door! :tears:

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Based on the visual I would go with regurge.

(Sorry to hijack the thread, but being on topic) What could cause a regurge other than too low temps or handling too soon after feeding?

If not fully defrosted and some tissue was still frozen.

If some tissue started to decay. Meaning it had been dead too long before freezing or offered if prekill. Or the food was refrozen too many times or even at all. Basically, food poisoning.

If a rat was diseased, but not known. And the disease affected tissue or blood that the snake's immune system and or digestive system could not handle.

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Originally Posted by redshepherd

(Sorry to hijack the thread, but being on topic) What could cause a regurge other than too low temps or handling too soon after feeding?

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Improper temps

Handling too soon / stress

Too big of a meal (it's not always spit right back out but sometime 2 or 3 days later)

Internal parasites.

Health issues

In most cases it's 1 or 2 you just need to go by elimination but if the following meal 2 weeks later is regurgitated as well and everything is done right, proper temps, no handling after the meal it is definitely something to look into.

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There was no noticeable smell. Should I wait 2 weeks to feed anyways? I don't want to risk anything.

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Looks like poop to me. Every now and then I'll get a poop, or part of a poop, out of my kiddos that looks like a clump of hair, just like that. Definitely not a regurge.

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I've seen clumps of hair like that in my snakes poop a few times before

What type of snake was it that had this episode? It does look like mostly fur. Most colubrids have issues and difficulties digesting fur. Especially very furry prey items. Really not the problem with boas and pythons though.

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

What type of snake was it that had this episode? It does look like mostly fur. Most colubrids have issues and difficulties digesting fur. Especially very furry prey items. Really not the problem with boas and pythons though.

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Was a 450ish-g ball python

Also, I've just brought him up from eating pups to weaned rats. This wasn't his first time eating that size, maybe the 3rd time

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In that case I would lean more towards the regurgitation. Also I would skip the next scheduled feedings and mix some lactobacillus/acidophilus into his drinking water for the next two weeks or so. And monitor your temps and humidity.

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I've seen clumps of hair like that in my snakes poop a few times before

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same here, in both my boas and bps from time to time. Not in the poop but with it or by itself.
Doesn't look like regurg to me (and I've sadly dealt with that a few times as well).

I've seen hair clumps like that eliminated from my BP as well. No noticeable smell, didn't seem like a regurge at the time. Monitoring and proceeding as if it's a regurge certainly won't hurt anything, but personally I wouldn't be too worried unless you see continuing issues.

Looks like a little poop and then Hair to me....

Squish it or dissect it-can't be any worse than science class in high school.

So funny to me - I have a smooth collie (my third collie) but just got my first BP.

Meant to reply to the pic with the collies in it - obviously the poop/possible regurge is not funny! Hope the snake is OK!