Another python poop thread... how much poop can one little guy produce??

[Coluber42]

When we got our new little guy he didn't poop for awhile, and refused the first meal we offered. But he has eaten for us twice now, and has pooped.... more than twice. Waaaay more than twice. I've sort of lost count, but I think we're up to between seven and nine distinct blobs of poop, in the space of less than two weeks. I think the combined total may be bigger than the two mice he has eaten for us.
They look like they've been getting progressively larger and more solid, with today's contribution looking more like what I remember poop looking from the BP I had years ago (who I think did tend to poop every meal or two). He has been looking generally a little chubby in the caboose.
The only thing I can figure is that he pretty much didn't poop for weeks before we got him, and he finally decided to let it all hang out, so to speak, just not all at once; and the reason the poops have been getting gradually bigger and more solid is that each has been the remains of a successively more recent rodent, and today he produced the remains of the mouse he ate just this past Sunday.

Does that sound right? Are we the dubious beneficiaries of a protracted poop strike in Hoosac's recent past? I've heard of BP's saving it up and then letting loose with a whopper... but saving it up and then rationing it out? Has he decided to bestow this generous fecal magnanimity at this time because he's feeling more comfortable than in his bin at the reptile store, or because he's less comfortable and wants to be sure we know about it? Or because if he saved it up any longer his eyeballs would turn brown (well, they're brown anyway... maybe that's why! )?

[cristacake]

I think your reasoning makes sense, though I was thinking maybe at his old home he may not have beeb properly heated or something and therefore wasn't able to digest his food very well. I'm no expert though, I haven't dealt with too many poops yet from my own BP.

[DennisM]

the poops have been getting gradually bigger and more solid

are you sure they've all been poops and not urates? 7-9 poops in a couple of weeks sounds unusual. then again, so does 7-9 pees

[Coluber42]

Yes, I'm sure they're not urates. We've seen some of those too, but not quite in the same prodigious quantities.