HAH! i think i helped crack his back

[OreoGaborio]

so i had Trigger out for a little handling tonight & i'm tryin to get him to stretch out over a tape measure.... so he was draped over both of my hands, one hand near his head & one near his tail... not gripping him, just holding him... so i try & stretch him out over the tape measure & i heard & felt something i SWEAR was just like popping knuckles... not huge pops, just a few cracks, just like when i crack my own back.

anyway, thought i'd share, i thought it was pretty interesting. never heard of anything like that happening before

oh... and he's just about 22" now, up from about 18" when i got him & FINALLY fattening up he's not NEARLY as skinny as he used to be, almost twice as thick now

[Danny350]

OreoGaborio try using this program called Snake Measurer. Here is a link to the file on Rapid Share http://rapidshare.de/files/1304211/S...surer.zip.html

To use Snake Measurer just take a picture of your snake with a digital camera. Be sure to have an object of a known length in the picture with your snake. Then open the Snake measurer ,load the picture, input the lenghth of the object in the picture {a tape measure is perfect}, then begin measuring. It's really simple, accurate, and painless for you and snake.

Never try to straighten out a snake you could hurt them.

[OreoGaborio]

i've got the program, i know all about it. I don't have a digital camera, the roommate who has one is sleeping and there's a tape measure 3 feet from me. what would you do?

i wasn't yanking on him, i wasn't even gripping him... he was lying across my open palms. if he didn't wanna do what i wanted him to do he wouldn't have done it.

[rex322]

i've got the program, i know all about it. I don't have a digital camera, the roommate who has one is sleeping and there's a tape measure 3 feet from me. what would you do?

i would use the program, its so much easier. as for the crack, ouch, i hope hes ok. i never heard of a snakes back cracking like that, i imagine it cant be to healthy. keep an eye on him, see if he has any weird behavior

[normballpython2]

so your telling me just because you couldn't have a little bit more patirnce you go ahead and try to force your snake to do something it obviously didn't want to do and in the action of doing so coulkd have seriously hurt him. just so you could a measurement! you couldn't wait until tommorow!!!! seriously man i hope your snake is ok. next time just be a little more patient.

[Patrick Long]

my corn snake has done that before and hes freaking 11 yaers old and hes fine oreo. i dont think its that big of a deal becuase your right if he didnt want to move...he wouldnt have

and brian i dont think we need such harsh and sharp critisism...thats just rude

[normballpython2]

yeah your right it was rude and i apologize for that. but IMHO you really should have just waited i mean if the snakes back cracked it had to be some sort of pull in order to do so (especillaly if you felt it crack,yikes). again sorry for coming off rude in the last post. hope your snake is ok

Brian

P.S. cool to hear that he/she is fattening up.

[OreoGaborio]

chill guys.... i'll say it again.... i WASN'T TUGGING on him, he was DRAPED... over my OPEN PALMS. i was holding him in a manner as to put MOST his body in a straight line, not TUGGING HIM & STRETCHING him out... i'm sure he enjoyed it just as much as i like cracking my own back... he didn't squirm at all when it happened nor did he seem to be in any discomfort. he acted like nothing happened whatsoever & is STILL acting normally. He probably thought he was at the Chiropractor

[Shelby]

That nasty knuckle popping feeling has happened to me many times while handling snakes.. especially colubrids. I have no idea what it is, but it has never seemed to harm them in any way. Especially if you're holding them, examining their tail (suppose there's some stuck shed), and they don't want to sit still, as they pull forward 'pop pop pop'.

[OreoGaborio]

yeah, my guess it's it's just like us poping our knuckles or whatever... i know i crack my back at LEAST once a day.