Cat Urine?

[Camby]

I am not an expert nor a newbie but I definitely do not have enough experience for this one. Once at a show in Columbia I took a snake out to handle and view to see if I wanted to purchase. The snake literally smelled like cat urine. I wrote it off that maybe the keeper had lots of cats and thus the horrible smell. Well, a friend called me today that does not own cats and said his two corns smelled like cat urine and asked if I had experienced that before. He said he soaked them in water for a bit hoping to get rid of the smell but it didn't work.

I haven't noticed this other than at the show but wonder if others here have? My guess to him is that maybe there is actually some sort of health issue that was causing it.

dc

 

[medusacoils]

I have never come across the "cat urine smell", but I have come across the "OMG is it Low Tide and is their something dead on the beach?" smell! I have no idea what that could be, unless the substrate used, in the display tanks, had been sprayed by a cat.

Wayne

 

[Regit]

That's strange, I've never encountered a cat urine smell on my snakes, and I own a bunch of cats, one who lives solely in my room where all my corns are.