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04-May-07, 05:12 PM
|  | Josh! Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Bulli, N.S.W Age/Gender: 24  | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dragon_tail  the lump hasnt disapeared and reapeard, it kinda spead out like a fat sausage, and finishes abruptly an inch before the tail, making the tail look so small and wrong that it looks like it wants to fall off! (he moves his tail as normal, and isnt acting any different?) this is the first time ive fed a snake! | Does it look something like this??? This is my new female tanami not far off dropping a steamer! 
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04-May-07, 05:15 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Timbucktoo, WA Age: 20 | | | |
if I watch closely I can tall when Grace is about to mess on me or the couch etc. after about 40mins of active movement - if I have had her outside and she has been moving around a lot - she wil start to contract her muscles like when they re pushing the mouse further down byt these only happen at the tail end. She will also lift her tail up. Watch out. It smells and if it gets on the bed spread you will not be popular. ( I know!!)
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04-May-07, 06:33 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | |
forgive my ignorance, i havent got a snake yet so im still learning, why cant you handle them after they feed? is there any other times (other than shedding) when you arent meant to be handling them?
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05-May-07, 08:54 AM
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the lump has evened out and now elvis looks pretty much nurmal, but no poop? oh and worminator, yes it was identical to that! thanks everyone for all your help so far! im gonna take elvis to some grass later, i tried astro turf on the ground at home to no avail! and i tried newspaper, then old carpet....nothing! i changed his tank to a new larger awsome clcik clack, ans cleaned the mouse blood out of the old one (keeping that one for feeding!
picking up his malemine 3 foot enclosure today!!! so excited, im gonna set it up fully, and have his click clack in there, letting him out to explore half hour before handling, and half hour after.
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05-May-07, 09:14 AM
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just let your snake crap when it wants to crap. sometimes my adult carpet doesnt crap for over a week after he eats. and some of my other snakes crap a few days later after a feed. there all different. personally i dont hold my snakes just for the "fun" of it, i reckon u shouldnt be holding them for at least 4-5 days after a feed. but, just my opinion....
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05-May-07, 09:27 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Melbourne Eastern Suburbs Gender: | | | |
The best way to get it to take a dump is to clean the enclosure . It will happen just after that . Is that python smiling ?
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05-May-07, 10:33 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: Melbourne - West Age/Gender: 39 | | | | Best way to take a dump
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Originally Posted by Jungletrans The best way to get it to take a dump is to clean the enclosure . It will happen just after that . Is that python smiling ? | I reckon the best way to make them take a dump is to play that Mika guys song. Makes me wanna go crap everytime. 
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05-May-07, 10:34 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Ipswich, Qld | | | |
The story I heard about handling a snake after a feed was that if they got stressed they may regurgitate their feed.
Handling of snakes is stressful for them, you just have to watch their breathing to see that. Their breathing can become quite quick. Having said that their breathing can return to normal if they are held properly and not overly fondled, the phrase "make like a tree" is well circulated for a good reason.
I agree with Jungletrans about the cleaning out the enclosure thing, even if they have just had a big "dump" the secound there is virgin paper it will be spoilt once more!!
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