Ok, These may seem like silly questions, but I always like to doublecheck/ verify if anything seems out of the ordinary to me. I’d rather be safe than sorry with respect to my animals’ well-being.

So I got home last night to find Cuddles had shed and left a fresh turd under her hide. Shed came off in pieces, which I attributed to my struggle to keep humidity levels up while awaiting my tub rack, but everything did come off. The odd thing is that her eyes never really clouded up. I see her every day when spot cleaning her enclosure and with her dull appearance, I thought she was going to go blue any day. Instead i came home to a freshly and fully shed little girl. Is it normal for their eyes to not cloud up much or at all when they shed?

Second question: She has taken 1 full large mouse (20-25grams) every 6 days since I got her, for a total of 3 feedings. Tomorrow will be her 4th feeding if I stick to every 6 days (today if i go to every 5 days). She supposedly ate the week before I got her. She pooped once the night before her 2nd feeding and then went 2 weeks before going again last night. I never used to weigh my red tail boas when I had them years ago. Back in the late 90’s, I just went off looks, behavior and appetite to judge if they were doing well.

With that being said, I got a postal scale last week and weighed her Tuesday, right before her last feeding and she was 165g. I weighed her again last night after shed and poop and she was still 165g 4 days later. Is it normal for them to not gain weight during a shed? Or could that just be because she didn’t poop before her last feeding? Should I only weigh after she poops instead of right before feeding?

Third question: When my boas used to poop, it always looked like a cat turd that had picked up some fur. When Cuddles first pooped, it looked the same. Her 2nd one last night looked like a regular cat turd and I couldn’t see any fur. I videoed her last feeding so I know she didn’t grab my razor from the bathroom and shave the mouse before eating it... So is it normal for a turd to show no signs of fur? Could it be that temps being consistent over the UTH at 90-91F instead of 88-89.7F helped her digest her meal that much better that the fur dissolved also?

She is acting fine and was doing her usual “searching for a meal” last night.

Thanks in advance for your help!


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