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It has been a while since we had any reptiles, so I forgot that they poop out what they don't digest. So needless to say I got quite a STINKY suprise today when I went to clean his cage. I have had the tank pretty closed up to raise the humidity. So this evening I was treated to a stinking pile of humidified heated mouse leftovers, a lot of hair and funk.
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Human boys 2&7
Ball python 1 male
American pit bull terriers 3 (2male,1 fem)
Ferret 1 male
Fish ????

I'm no pro but that doesnt seem right to me. In the three years I have had my BP it has never smelled much at all or had hair in it. Could it be that it regurgitated its meal?

Yea I agree, poop is poop no hair . But regurgation is nasty I had a baby do that and it was so foul. I would bet that is what it is do not feed for at least two weeks. The stomach will not take it, and you can do more harm than good.

Just about every poop I have ever encountered, especially from the larger females, has had some level of bad smell to it. Think about it, it is sitting in their digestive systems for a long time so it will smell to some degree. Hair is actually not digestable by most if not all species of animals (including humans) so all snake poop will contain rodent hair if you break it apart and look at it (oh please don't be this curious hahaha). If it is brown and looks like, well, poop....then it is poop. Regurgitation will be more liquidy and in most cases will still resemble the rodent that was consumed in some way.

A pile of Pit-bull dodo..And i know this is a fact.are you sure it wasn't a puked up mouse or rat.maybe the temps are to low and the snake isn't diegesting all the way?Just a thought
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Yeah, probably a regurged mousey.

But poop can be pretty darn stinky sometimes. The first time my female pooped after her long fast from breeding season it was the biggest, stinkiest poop I have ever encountered. It was like slamming my face into a wall when I opened the cage up afterwards!

~jenny
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard (Freckles)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

It is too late not too feed him he just ate 2 mice. I will watch for regurgetation again.
I fed him last tuesday, would he have just regurged today? thats probobly definitely what it was though with the explanations on here, but it was in his water dish so I couldn't tell you the water consistency of it. But it was definitely hair that is pretty much it and nothing like the BM last week.
since I fed him already what should I do other than observation? I will not feed him for 2 weeks anything else to do.
What may have caused the vomit in the first place?

as always thanks in advance for replies.
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Human boys 2&7
Ball python 1 male
American pit bull terriers 3 (2male,1 fem)
Ferret 1 male
Fish ????

Well, a week later...It might not have been regurge. I've seen poops with hair, or hair-like stuff, on it before. Usually when it's been cool out and the snake probably didn't digest fully. Or it could be regurge. I've never had a snake regurge more than a day or two after eating but I also have yet to see everything so who knows.

Regurge or no, wait just one week and try just one mouse to see how it sits. Could be that the two mice were just too much. Your temps are up, right? 90 on the hot, 80 on the cool? Just checkin basics

~jenny
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

thanks, the temps are good, im cking those daily. I will wait to feed him anymore. when I got him at the expo the breeder said he was eating 3 mice a week, and I am only feeding 2. Oh well maybe the new environment, anyway i will try just one mouse in a week or 2 and see how he does.
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Human boys 2&7
Ball python 1 male
American pit bull terriers 3 (2male,1 fem)
Ferret 1 male
Fish ????