Some females just lay slugs. It's hardwired into them to reproduce to survive. Not all do this, but I hear it's not uncommon. I'm going to try shortening her photo period and keeping her on a 12 hour through the summer, like Nanci suggested to me. But if she continues doing this, and isn't able to keep weight on and stay healthy, I'll have to take her to get fixed. I'm really hoping to avoid this, since I haven't found a vet that I trust, and don't want to put her through such an invasive procedure. She's so ridiculously thin though. It's a really tough call to make.
If she were healthy, I would totally consider breeding her. I would just have to find very special beardie parents to make sure the babies had good homes. I told my boyfriend he wasn't allowed to breed carpet pythons unless he was able to guarantee ever baby would be taken care of for their entire lives. Needless to say, we will have no baby pythons haha.
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