Never Fails!! Clean enclosure? GOTTA MESS IT UP!

[Xotik]

AHH I'm back! I didn't really go anywhere but..here's the quick and dirty.

Boyfriend was a poopyhead.
Boyfriend dumps me/kicks me out.
Old Exboyfriend takes care of my snakes and cats.
Other animals are being babysat by various friends/family.
Stuff my entire life into a storage locker.
Homeless for 3 weeks.
New home found!
Moved into new place two days ago.
Moved snakes and cats in last night.

When I moved everybody I decided I was going to switch from cypress mulch (its heavy!) to paper towels.

I got all 9 BPs set up and happy and low and behold - one of my big kids had spilled her water. ALL of it. I'm like - I JUST FIXED THAT!

I cleaned it up and went to eat dinner. Came back and THREE of them had knocked it over. One of them being the girl from before! I'm like GAH-you-silly-snakes!!! I just left it, cause two are in blue and need the added humidity anyways.

Get up this morning and there was a menagerie of Poo and Pee podules waiting for me xD Couldn't you guys have done this LAST NIGHT?! BEFOREEEEE I cleaned everything?! Nope. Never.

On a side note - My cats did it too, I brought their litter pan, with used but not terribly dirty litter so they would recognize their box - put it down and added other litter, within 30 seconds, Little was all over that, making sure she was doing her best to make it as dirty a litterbox as possible.

Moral of the story; If you have a snake that wont go poo or pee, change their tub. Clean it SPOTLESS. They wont be able to resist. For added benefit - change their bedding style too (aspen to paper towels for instance).

[Slim]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad to hear things are back to normal.

I've always said nothing makes a BP poop quicker than new substrate and a clean tub...

[DooLittle]

Definately the fastest / best way to get rid of sausage butt. Clean the tub.

This is also a good way to get litter flung everywhere, or poop in the box. Clean or add new. I feel your pain.

[Xotik]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad to hear things are back to normal.

I've always said nothing makes a BP poop quicker than new substrate and a clean tub...

Thanks Slim - but it was actually one of the best things he could have done. He was making my life harder than it should have been, and even when I was homeless - life was far better.

And I'm pretty sure there is no faster method to get a snake to poo as to changing their substrate.

Definately the fastest / best way to get rid of sausage butt. Clean the tub.

Definitely. I've been fortunate to not have to deal with a Sausage Butt case, but some weeks I look at my kids and go "Yes, those scales DO make your butt look big."

[Slim]

it was actually one of the best things he could have done. He was making my life harder than it should have been, and even when I was homeless - life was far better.

I'm glad things worked out for you! Sounds like you are in a much better place now

[Xotik]

I'm glad things worked out for you! Sounds like you are in a much better place now

Definitely. My roommates are awesome, the girl is actually one of the people I sold one of the snakes too when I had to move out. So I get to see Icky all the time now! *happy*
I did have to sell a couple of others that I had no plans for, and they're in awesome homes where they can reach their full potential now. Great for them, Great for me.
Now I'm just left with the BPs I can use (except one, he is a gift for my little sister (who is already worthy of owning one, but our parents still haven't agreed she can have him yet)). Another local breeder and I are getting together and doing a co-operative breeding project with his male morphs and my female normals.
I never would have come this far if all that other stuff didn't happen. It was poor timing, but great in the long run.

[Skiploder]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad to hear things are back to normal.

I've always said nothing makes a BP poop quicker than new substrate and a clean tub...

There is a real reason for this....

[Xotik]

Indeed Skiploder.

I've finally cleaned everybodys poo and pees out - now I'm waiting for the next round xD