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Drooling blood python?!

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Jessica29

Crazy Alaskan
My husband just bought a blood python. He's very aggressive and was used as a breeder, never handled. He was kept in a very small plastic tub with no heat source. When the guy tried to pick him up he was very stressed and began hissing and then drooling. I tried looking it up and I found three different reasons this could be. The first one said that snakes who recently drank and then are handled may spit up the water as their asophogus doesn't work the same as ours. Another said it can happen from lack of heat. And another said simply extreme stress can cause it. Any ideas? He's in complete isolation for our other snakes.
 
I thought about that too. I calledy local vet and they said it robbaly was the extreme stress since he's never been handled. Said if it happens again or any other signs(wheezing, sneezing) come up to bring him in.
 
Well, Honestly, I'm out of comfort zone a little, I do own a python...not a Blood python....but a ball python...so, based on your opening statement i chose a URI as the obvious choice. Again, Honestly, Never heard of a snake slobbering due to stress...Doesn't mean it doesn't happen...just means i've never heard of it. Best advice i can give is follow vets advice??
 
I'm keeping a close eye on him. I've never seen a snake so upset before and since I have seen other people who's snakes have done the same thing, I'm going to let him settle down. He's in a 6ft enclosure now versus a 1ft plastic tub. With heat and hides. If anything else unusual happens I'm take him straight to the vet. I just had to get him out of where he was.
 
Jessica29 said:
I'm keeping a close eye on him. I've never seen a snake so upset before and since I have seen other people who's snakes have done the same thing, I'm going to let him settle down. He's in a 6ft enclosure now versus a 1ft plastic tub. With heat and hides. If anything else unusual happens I'm take him straight to the vet. I just had to get him out of where he was.
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I can understand that! :) Best of luck to ya!! And if it is due to stress, i'm sure your new fella thanks you/your husband for putting him in a MUCH better place! :)
 
I have never heard of a snake drooling because of stress. I know blood pythons can be very aggressive. They have an albino blood at my husbands work. She hisses and strikes anytime you handle her.

I wouldn't wait for sneezing or wheezing, I just had a corn with a serious URI. The longer it goes untreated the harder it is to handle.
 
From what I understand, Blood Pythons can be pretty aggressive. I have read that some can be fairly docile, but I know someone who has them & he's told me he's been bit numerous times.

I would be willing to bet the snake has an RI. It sounds like he may not have had the best care before, & there's a good chance he's got a RI.

I would get the snake into a vet.
 
Like Stephanie said, the longer you wait, the harder it is to deal with, & you could end up losing the snake.
 
The stress drool is a common thing for blood pythons. HOWEVER, he could still have something going on. Keep him at optimum temps for a few days then re-assess him, stress could be very likely the cause of this.

How long was he without heat?
 
I'm not sure. He said he was a breeder. He had all kinds of snake in one of those rack systems with the bins. As far as I could tell none of them had heat sources.
 
You might want to edge his temps up a tiny bit. A degree or two above optimum, just to help his body. If he is still overly drooly Monday, a vet needs to take a look at him. Keep all hands, fingers, hooks, poking and prodding away from him for a solid 24 hours. Recheck him from a distant if possible, do not remove him from the cage unless you can't check for drool otherwise.

He needs to be totally left alone. He's not going to settle if he's not.
 
His been in one of the hides since we brought him home. His head is poking out though and I don't see any drool. It stopped immediately after the guy put him back in the tub. He didn't do it again even after we picked him up to transfer him from the tub to the 6ft enclosure. The warm end is at 89 and the cool end is at 78.
 
Cool. Temps seem good. Just let him hang out and relax with no contact for 24 hours. You might see a marked improvement in his mood. That's a big "might" though. They normally are very grumpy snakes.
 
Well the room they were in was just as cool as the rest of the house. Where I live outside temps are well past 100, so most people keep their house pretty cool.
 
Just keep the temps at the 92 F range- Bloods are very sensitive to heat deprevation and will quickly perish if it's denied for long.
 
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Here he is. Doing better finally started to move around some after warming
Up. Was told he is a yellow blood.
 
Aha...
He's a Malaysian Blood Python... there are "reds" and Sumatrans which are black...
I don't think there are any yellow bloods.
 
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