Thank you poop gods.....and Kara lol.

[8b8ll]

Hey guys,


Well it has been a rough few weeks for me and of course my short-tail. I recieved him in perfect condition from Kara @ NERD. He was a great eater, shed perfect, pee'd, drank and was docile. Fastforward to a week ago. I had not had a bowel movement from him since I got him, only reason I had waited so long to seek a vet was because I know these guys really hold their crap in.

Well after soaking and soaking I started to feel on his body and sure enough I could feel a HARD mass at the last 1/4 of his body.

Went to the vet and got an X-ray done and sure enough he was full to the brim with fecal matter and hard urates. Vet gave me some oral medicine (stool softener) and told me to give 2 ML's every other day for a week and see what happens and we would go from there.

So this is the first time I have ever had to administer medicine to any of my snakes....needless to say it was amatuer hour lol.

All of sudden in the middle of him squirming..me repeaditly apologizing for having to grab his head and his tail thrashing...I see that something is coming out of him. I grab the end of his tail and help him pass two HUGE HARD urates. I set him back into his cage because I was so happy I had to go tell some people. I then take him back out of his cage and try to adminsiter the medicine again well he takes a nice big 10 inch dump!!!

I will call my vet in the morning and let her know and see if I am go to go on getting him back to feeding. I have held off on feeding him for about a month and a half.

Just wanted to share my long and boring story. These guys have a very slow metabolism BUT it is our job to check and make sure there arent other issues.


Mike

PS Pics of the poop will be up later

[ladywhipple02]

Yay.... poopy pics!!!!


Waiting with baited breath...

Rock on dude!!! Glad to hear he's feeling better!

[2kdime]

They take some monster poops don't they??? Haha how much does your little guy weigh? Length?

And as gross as it sounds. I need pics!!!!! Haha my guy has gone about a month and a half with no urates or poop. I just know I'm in for a honker here sooner than I'd like.

[Kara]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidy-ho!!!!!

You get the Mr. Hankey seal of approval!!!


Hydration + lower temps + moderate meals = happy poopin'!

Congrats on your recent, er, "developments" Mike!!!

K~

[Krazy99CL]

Thats such a ummmm. awesome story. My vet popped out a huge urate too. I was surprised that thing could come out, out of a little you know what.

Thats great to hear Mike. Got any updated pics of him too? I bet he is even more handsome than the last time. Good luck.

[8b8ll]

As you can see even though he drank when he would be soaked it was still very hard.


Mike

[Krazy99CL]

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As you can see even though he drank when he would be soaked it was still very hard.


Mike

YUMMMMMEEEE!

[2Devious]

Holy crap....

[2kdime]

That's about what mine looked like. I came home from work. And some of the paint inside the front door walkway was peeling off the walls.

I went into my room and I found the cause. Haha. Congrats on the empty blood!!!

[Krazy99CL]

Holy crap....

sure is