Distinction between poo and vomit~~:>(

Sorry for the gross topic, but how do I tell? I want to know if my snake has been keeping down her food. Appreciate it!

you'll have to post a pic ( i know that sounds even grosser) because that would be the only way for anyone to tell.

.....first.....the smell.....you will not be able to mistake a regurg...it will make you want to hurl...

Snake poo.....well....it looks like poo.

Plus with a regurg, it should still basically look like it did when went in. Add lots of slime and think nasty.

With poo, it's well ... what Daniel said. You can mush it up and it should be pretty consistant. Have fun with that part. ;)

Sometimes poo will still have fur, but it still looks like poo.

Poo will be crumbly and brittle in your fingers ... or slimy like tar.

Vomit will be a large mass that feels like a rodent (arms, legs, head, bones, etc) when you squish it around in your fingers.

Pick it up, play with it, you'll be able to feel the difference.

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Poo will be crumbly and brittle in your fingers ... or slimy like tar.

Vomit will be a large mass that feels like a rodent (arms, legs, head, bones, etc) when you squish it around in your fingers.

Pick it up, play with it, you'll be able to feel the difference.

-adam

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Crumby in your gloved fingers....I hope.....:giggle:

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Crumby in your gloved fingers....I hope.....:giggle:

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Gloves? ... LOL ... good one.

-adam

Well, it seems to match both of those descriptions. If I had a digital camera I would post a pic. There were various clumps, all of which were brown, but there was a tiny bit of white. When I picked it up it was brittle, made me want to hurl (but I don't see how poo wouldn't make me want to do that) and was definately very digested. One clump was very large (about an inch and a half by an inch), but I don't know if that is because she puked it up all at once or left her droppings in a large pile. I gave her 48 hours after her last feeding (saturday) to digest before handling her (yesterday), and I've been keeping the temperatures high. Just saw the mass when I got home from school today. Unless you have any suggestions I suppose I will just wait until the next feeding day and if the same thing happens I will try to get a pic and post it.

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Originally Posted by LBWilson

When I picked it up it was brittle

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Sounds like dookie ... a regurg would feel like a giant wet slimey dead slug.

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Sounds like dookie ... a regurg would feel like a giant wet slimey dead slug.

-adam

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Hahaha...Reassuring...and darkly humorous! :carrot:

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Sounds like dookie ...
-adam

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:8: :rofl: Ohmygosh, I'm laughing so hard!!! I seriously thought my brother was the only man on the planet that would use that word past the age of 13! I even heard his voice when I read your words........thank you so much for that laugh!!!

As for your description, LBWilson, the white chalky stuff you mentioned that crumbled in your fingers is urates...part of their urine discharge is solid like that and is totally normal.

I'll have to follow Judy's lead on that one. I almost fell out of my chair when I read the word DOOKIE. I haven't heard that since the third grade.

What?!?! No Green Day fans? :rolleyes:

i believe the MAIN and most important difference between..ahem snake dookie and a regurg is what end of the snake it comes out of.:colbert2:

Regurg tastes more like a dead mouse than the poo does, kidding, I just grossed myself out.

Gack is a stank like no other. Poop may reek, but you know it's poop.

When in doubt, stick your nose in there & take a big ol' sniff.



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K~

Our BP's poops just look like cat poop to me basically. Stinky but not awful (course after raising 4 babies my turd tolerance is pretty high LOL). Sometimes they drop a urate with the feces, sometimes across the tank, sometimes a whole different day is devoted to each "activity" LOL. So far we haven't had a regurge (*knock wood*) but from what I've been told you can't mistake the smell and total grossness of it.

i wish i had a regurg. at least he would be eating!! Monty still hasnt eaten since like November!

Nope you don't ever want a regurge Alex. Not only would your snake still not be receiving nutrition but you'd be stuck working to find out why he regurged and slowly working him back to being able to even take a normal meal. Not fun.

As a veteran of regurges (snakes and my own), there is no positive angle there. The smell as everyone has said is one that you would never want to experience twice. Think about rubbing yourself all over a llama and then bathing in garbage juice.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

As a veteran of regurges (snakes and my own), there is no positive angle there. The smell as everyone has said is one that you would never want to experience twice. Think about rubbing yourself all over a llama and then bathing in garbage juice.

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Classic! LOL :D