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    Passing urates while handling?

    Today was the second time that my BP has passed urates (as well as liquid urine, but no feces) while I was handling him. I will have had him for two weeks on Tuesday (he has eaten twice for me), so this is not a very big time span for this to be happening in.. and he's also never passed anything just in his cage in his own time lol.

    I'm wondering if this is something I should worry about? The first time I just thought it was a coincidence, but now I don't know. I only had him out for about ten minutes, and I wasn't doing anything abnormal either time.

    Could it just be because I'm warm and maybe him moving around my hand is like massaging it out or something? Or am I literally scaring the crap out of him?

    I just wanted to make sure that I should not be concerned about this.

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    Re: Passing urates while handling?

    welcome to the club........they get to come out and roam a little work it all out...and it happens.

    The best advice I can give you is put some towels down and keep the snake on the towels until he does his thing and then handle. This is what we do and since we started this...we have had no accidents.
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