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I took my licorice stick out last night and as i was holding her i kept smelling an odor like something was burning and i had just changed my light bulbs on two fixtures. It drove me crazy...for 20 minutes i was trying to figure out where the smell was....but it followed me everywhere i went. I finally put her back in her cage and sat down then i realized when i got some ice cream and brought my hand up that it smelled so i smelled my hand and it came off her! Anybody ever heard of this? She's been on aspen for about 2 weeks now and i've been spot cleaning it...this telling me i need to change it all out or what?

Thanks,
Chris
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -George Carlin

Battling ignorance one stupid person at a time.

Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)

My group all do this, they excrete a pretty foul white creamy
substance from their cloaca, it stinks.
Its just a way of them saying 'go away' and i guess it
works pretty well.
As they tame down it gets better, but you had better get
used to it.
Ridleyi also 'musk' and they are just as bad, believe me.

that's really odd. she hasnt ever done this before and she was just sitting wrapped around my wrist calm as could be. so is this the musk or is it different from the musk?
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -George Carlin

Battling ignorance one stupid person at a time.

Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)

Its the musk, just wash it off with some soap and water, though it
does tend to hang around a bit.

try a ringneck!! Very Very pungeant healthy odor that will curl your nostril hairs!!! LOL
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1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes "Punisher and Mystique" (MO locale)
1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer "Nightcrawler" (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)
1.1 California king snake "Bandit and Moonstar" (Coastal phase)
1.0 Prairie king snake "Bishop" (KY locale)
0.1 Black king snake "Domino" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake "Cable" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade "Omega Red" (KY locale)

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

eh my black ratsnake has a TERRIBLE musk. I just havent ever smelled one that smelled like something was burning.
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -George Carlin

Battling ignorance one stupid person at a time.

Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)

Snakes in fact do musk, rats especially, the King Rat from China smells like s*it in fact, is a foul smelling beast. I had a yellow rat that musked me a lot as well. is nasty but harmless.