I'm interested in seeing how many people have actually experienced a regurgitation due strictly to handling too "soon" after being fed. It is stated quite frequently that you should allow them two or so days to digest before any handling.

I'm only interested in hearing about handling incidents, not any due to illness, improperly sized prey, stress, and so on.

Back story:

This past Saturday, I fed my adult normal female a small rat, she took it as usual so I moved on to tending to the rest of my snakes.

I come back to her about twenty minutes later, rats gone. Cool. I go to change the water bowl and she strikes at me viciously, smacking mouth first into the side of the tub. She staggers herself backwards awkwardly, I can see that something is wrong. The force of her slamming into the side of the tub has folded her bottom jaw inwards and it has hooked onto her teeth inside her mouth. Struggling now to right herself, rubbing and thrashing her head around on the ground, she can't get it unhooked.

Obviously something must be done.

I grab her, she's immediately stressed. She's throwing herself around trying to get away from me. She can no longer bite, she can only flee. Grab a shirt and place it over her to calm her down as I get her out. She's out now, I sit down and access the situation. I grab myself a makeshift speculum, I know I have to open her mouth. I get her firmly behind the head and she hates this. She is throwing herself wildly all over the place, wriggling, coiling me, trying to escape anyway she can. I let her go a couple of times as she's twisted her head in ways that I have no safe control over her anymore.

I get her mouth open and check her out, there's a couple of teeth hooked on her bottom jaw. I unhooked her teeth and readjusted her jaw slightly, she reset it fully once I had let her go. I put her back and she roamed for awhile before settling down.

Now, the moral of the book I just wrote is: I handled that animal viciously compared to normal handling just fifteen minutes or so after she had eaten. She never regurgitated or seemed liked she even thought about it. I've had ball pythons for the past eight years and I have never experienced any type of regurgitation due to handling, or anything for that matter.

I'd like to hear from people who have experienced this. It's kind of a myth to me I supposed.

Thoughts?