Where did this myth start that snakes are incapable of "urinating"? Yeah, I understand they secrete their uric acid in urate solids and as such don't urinate (liquid with urea) in the traditional mammalian sense of the scientific term but the widely held belief that a snake, especially a ball python, is incapable of passing liquid from their kidneys out their cloaca just seems really lacking, to me anyway, in understanding of snakes as pets.

Anyone have any good information on this and if I am just the one who is wrong and imagining my ball python peeing or have you all experienced the same with yours?

I just want to better understand if it is pee, musk, just water in small amounts that seem large (mine leaves a big wet spot where he drops his urate), or if it is all an illusion and they are indeed incapable of passing liquid

If it is indeed fact that they do not "pee" then what the heck has my BP been doing all these years?!