Regurgitated food?

I just found the weirdest thing in the corner of my BPs hide, I don't know what it is but it might be regurgitation from her meal last night?

http://i63.tinypic.com/24wefit.jpg

If it is, that's my own fault-- I feed her in a separate container and then put her back in her enclosure afterwards. She's never had a problem with me doing so before, but I shouldn't assume she wouldn't eventually. Is this regurgitated food or something else?

If it is, I definitely recommend just feeding her in her enclosure, just to be safe. I always feed Calliope in her enclosure and I've never had any sort of problems caused by that


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How long ago did you feed and what was the smell like?

Usually regurgitation looks like the rodent partially digested, this looks like fur and small amount of fecal matter hence my question about the smell.

kind of looks like poop, i think i even see a urate in the back there. you'd know if it was a regurge because it would literally smells like death and vaguely resemble a feeder.

just feed in the enclosure from now on. there is no benefit to you or the snake when feeding in a separate enclosure.

If it was a regurgitation from last night it would look much more like a mouse/rat. It would basically look like a slimy, partially dissolved prey item and smell like death.

Would she have digested all those mice (four pinkies) already? There were definite furry looking pieces and some places I thought I saw rodent parts

The urate was in another part of the enclosure

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Originally Posted by mihosayuri

Would she have digested all those mice (four pinkies) already? There were definite furry looking pieces and some places I thought I saw rodent parts

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You are feeding pinkie to a BP? Pinkies don't have fur so it's even more confusing.

Again what did it smell like?

That looks like poop lol

Didn't smell like anything really. It was smushy, greyish brown and had hair, and looked like the amount of the four pinkies from last night

Another pic
http://i67.tinypic.com/2055bwz.jpg

Alright well, if it was regurge, you would have smelled it. Trust us.

Now on to the next issue....PINKIES???? for a BP??
Pinkies are WAY too small for a ball python. BPs eat hoppers right out of the egg, and only for the first 3-5 meals. Then they move up to small adult mice or rat fuzzies.

Considering how long you have had the animal my guess this is the last of the fur from when the animal was properly fed.

You can feed 5 pinkies or 10 or 50 it will still not make your BP being adequately fed, you are basically starving this animal, which means it will not grow nor pass fecal matter. Pinkies are watery blob that contain a little fat due to the milk, and not appropriated for for a BP only young colubrids.

Time to get back to basics.

I apologize that the last time I went to the pet store they were out of everything but pinkies and she needed to eat that night.

As long as it was just because they were all out and she needed to eat, it's fine. A one time this is nothing to stress out about and you know better for next time. I have made the same mistake for when I couldn't get any nice and I ended up feeding Calliope 3 pinkies instead, now that you know you shouldn't do that, I'm sure you won't do it again. Most people don't realize pinkies are as nutritional because they don't think of the differences in diet and such but it's a rookie mistake and I'm sure you won't do it again now that you've been warned.

If that was resurge it would smell pretty bad. I've seen some pretty weird looking poo from Calliope before but then again I've never seen regurge before so I can't say for sure.


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As long as it was just because they were all out and she needed to eat, it's fine. A one time this is nothing to stress out about and you know better for next time. I have made the same mistake for when I couldn't get any nice and I ended up feeding Calliope 3 pinkies instead, now that you know you shouldn't do that, I'm sure you won't do it again. Most people don't realize pinkies are as nutritional because they don't think of the differences in diet and such but it's a rookie mistake and I'm sure you won't do it again now that you've been warned.

If that was resurge it would smell pretty bad. I've seen some pretty weird looking poo from Calliope before but then again I've never seen regurge before so I can't say for sure.


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Omg so many typos I feel a little dumb looking back on this. I meant not many people realize pinkies AREN'T as nutritious as regular mice.


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