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    Re: Will my new female bp musk?????????

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    i just got a 3 month old female bp and haven't held her for about a week after I got her home. Im afraid she will musk on me like she did at the expo where I got her. Is there anything you can do to prevent being musked, peed, or pooped on??? pls let me know im kind of nervous
    Snakes often musk when frightened, like at an expo. Also, she may have been sexed (probed for verification) while there or shortly before, & trust me, that too will cause
    a normally-calm snake to musk. Musk is typically a self-defense mechanism, to smell un-appealing & to avoid being eaten by a predator. So if you treat your snake kindly
    and with empathy, she is unlikely to expel any musk when you handle her. As far as avoiding being "peed or pooped on", a snake will go when it has to go...it's your job
    (if you wish to avoid it) to look at their cloacal area when you first pick them up, and if it's bulging above that, you're "asking for it".

    Please, for future reference, start a NEW thread for your questions, rather than adding to a thread that's old. This one is 9 years old! O.K.???

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