"Gassy" ball python?

[Greymoon]

First of all, I am sorry that I just joined this forum to ask this question... I swear I am not a troll. >.<

My roommate has a wee ball python that I believe is about 2 years old. I know NOTHING about snakes, and her snakey is her responsibility--I fully admit to sorta giving a wide berth when snakey is out, just because I'm not really used to being around them, because really, her snake is probably one of the most chill critters I've ever met.

However, that said, I did want to check to make sure something is "normal". Earlier this evening, roommate and I were upstairs chatting, when suddenly we hear what sounds like... I swear to god it sounded like we had a horse in the room with us farting. We look up and see it's coming from her snakey--who has immediately drawn the attention of all five cats with his movement and horrendous noise, and is actually sitting on his log with his mouth open while continuing with this noise. She thought at first that he was suddenly being deathly ill and trying to regurgitate, because he did honestly seem to be having some sort of gag reflex, but when we investigated (seriously, this noise went on for something like 30 seconds solid) he certainly had not regurgitated--but there was a very small amount/line of what looked like maybe liquid poo that had clearly been ejected at high speeds.

It was then that we surmised that poor snakey had just had a horrible horrible case of the toots and was making faces due to the discomfort of all that gas moving around. Afterwards he seemed perfectly fine, moving around and generally being his snakey self.

Thing is, it was so startling that I want to make sure on her behalf that something like that IS normal.

So... any advice on the normality of the mysterious farting snake would be greatly appreciated. (FWIW if it matters, he was last fed ~2 weeks ago, is due again, and he is fed frozen mousies, nothing live.)

[ballpythonluvr]

Sounds perfectly normal to me. I once had a big female ball python that farted so loud she woke me up in the middle of the night. She was gasping with her mouth open. Needless to say, it was 1 a.m. in the morning and I had to clean up one huge poop mess.

[tnarg249]

I had my ball python out last night and i SWEAR he farted on me. We then come home tonight to a mess, and when I was rinsing him off, he decided to leave me a nice log in the sink!

[hypersomniacjoo]

i've heard several of my snakes do this - i thought my precious baby pastel female was dying because she was making convulsing movements and there was a extremely long and loud sound that i've described sounding like someone is dragging/scraping a metal pipe along the bedroom wall.

[Melissa18]

omg, I am SOO glad to see this post. this EXACT thing just happened to my male pastel...about 5 minutes ago!! it was SOO loud and when I went to see what it was....thinking it was my 90lb golden retriever yakking on something or worse....it was my 800g lil ball! whew!! I thought he was having a seizure or something.

[angllady2]

Yes ball pythons fart. Quite loudly in fact. And yes they do make terrible faces when they do it. Kind of like your face when you have bad cramps. So as weird as it sounds, pun intended, it is completely normal.

Gale

[Mephibosheth1]

I told my brother about puthons farts, and he didn't believe me...I hope mine does this soon for us so I can prove him wrong

[Anya]

First time it happened here, it FREAKED me out. Sounded like a shot went off! lol.