• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Defecation observations

DollysMom

DollysMom

It never gets old!
Aside from frequency, quantity, and quality all of which my snakes seem to have perfected, I have noticed that my only adult, Mandy, not only lifts her tail during the event; but as she moves away from the "dirty deed", she lifts her little girly tail straight up in the air and holds it there for quite a while. I mean straight up. If her tail were larger it would be a flag pole.

There is no way this girl is going to accidently trail her tail in her fresh, damp, large and high quality pile of feces and urates.

Is this common? My snabies lift their tails some but with Mandy it's like, "eeew, poo." The only way she would get it on her is if when it is in the viv I didn't clean to the point where she couldn't avoid it. She is super clean about keeping herself out of it.

She's also extremely regular. This is on my mind because the Monday morning 9-10 am time slot is prime time around here so to speak.

Snakes never fail to fascinate me and her little prissy ways in this area are very endearing. What do your corny ones do?
 
Jag does the same thing. She lifts her tail, poops and slides away with the tail straight up. I can also predict when she will defecate with very good accuracy because she is also so regular. This is something that has happened in the last 2-3 years, when she ws younger it was a little more irregular.

Snakies are silly!
 
Silly but awesome. This is just one more data point that supports appreciation of snakes as pets!
 
I have seen this "flag-poling" on occasion.
What I wonder is how they manage to keep their tails out of it when they're going under the substrate or under a hide? A couple of mine do that regularly.
 
Rufus does that too unless he dumps in water bowl, and at that I usually catch him looking at me and snickering
 
albertagirl said:
I have seen this "flag-poling" on occasion.
What I wonder is how they manage to keep their tails out of it when they're going under the substrate or under a hide? A couple of mine do that regularly.
Click to expand...

We don't know what happens in the dark of the ocean and we don't know what goes on in the substrate. And what happens in the hide, stays in the hide. Science still has a few frontiers left, lol.

Karl_Mcknight said:
Rufus does that too unless he dumps in water bowl, and at that I usually catch him looking at me and snickering
Click to expand...

:roflmao: leave it to Rufus to make me spray coffee out my nose!
 
I've watched Tango do that...as he pooped all over my bed. Tail up, all dainty like, cuz he wasn't about to touch it. That's my job!
 
snake diapers!

They have them for people, dogs, I have even seen horses pulling carriages down the street with "Poop Bags" strapped under their tails.

So we have an opportunity here to be creative and possibly even make some money.

But what would we call our new product? It needs a catchy name.
 
Karl_Mcknight said:
snake diapers!

They have them for people, dogs, I have even seen horses pulling carriages down the street with "Poop Bags" strapped under their tails.

So we have an opportunity here to be creative and possibly even make some money.

But what would we call our new product? It needs a catchy name.
Click to expand...

Just don't call them snipers. People might get the wrong idea. :madeuce:

DollysMom said:
We don't know what happens in the dark of the ocean and we don't know what goes on in the substrate. And what happens in the hide, stays in the hide. Science still has a few frontiers left, lol.
Click to expand...

:roflmao: Good thing I wasn't also drinking coffee!!
 
We'll definitely not poop bags, lol

Yeah, A name like "snipers" will pretty much keep all snakes from getting through TSA.

Tubies (tube-eeze)? Snuggies (Snake-huggies)? Slither edition Pampers?

There are only a few engineering problems to overcome. ;)

So I came up with the name, now you tell me how we gonna keep 'em on? :D
 
DollysMom said:
We'll definitely not poop bags, lol

Tubies (tube-eeze)? Snuggies (Snake-huggies)? Slither edition Pampers?

There are only a few engineering problems to overcome. ;)

So I came up with the name, now you tell me how we gonna keep 'em on? : D
Click to expand...

I've heard tape sticks to snakes really well! Alright, solved that problem, now how we gonna get them off again? :duck:
 
remember those "Chinese Finger Lock Toys" when we were kids? You stick your finger in, but you can't pull it back out. Something along that line might work.
 
Karl_Mcknight said:
remember those "Chinese Finger Lock Toys" when we were kids? You stick your finger in, but you can't pull it back out. Something along that line might work.
Click to expand...

Might work, but only as long as Rufus gives it his "stamp", so to speak, of approval! :cheers:
 
I don't know what would be worse, cleaning the poo out of his water bowl, or trying to pry a poo filled Chinese Finger toy off of him.

I think this is what we call a Conundrum.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top