If I saw a bad case of sausage butt for more than a week, I'd probably start getting concerned.
There was a story on this Forum a couple years back about a person with a BP who had the worst case of sausage butt ever. The keeper got the snake out of the tub with the intention of soaking it. On the way to the soaking tub, the keeper started palpating the area just in front of the vent. The keeper said they heard a audible cracking sound, and then out came two halves of a huge urate and then about a half gallon of brown fluid. After that the snake looked perfectly normal. The best we could figure is that the urate was blocking evacuation, and when it cracked due to the palpation, the evacuation route was cleared, with the expected outcome.
The snake recovered fully, which is more than could be said of the keeper's hall carpet...
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