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i got my blood on 9-5 and she has eaten 3 meals so far and hasnt defecated. the length of time is not worrying me because my ball generally takes awhile too, its the "stuff" i feel in her. i can feel a lot of urates, poo etc.. in her. i have soaked her twice. what else should i do? should i just wait some more? i think she is trying to defecate because she pees in her humidity hide and cage but its never the hard white urates. well any advice would be great.

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mine hasn't gone since like august.

here is what i was told (it is like one of the last posts on page 1).

"Hey,
Bloods and short-tails, have a very high propensity for retaining stools for very long periods at a time. This is common, and should not be cause for alarm. A good soak can usually remedy the situation, but there are others that will consistently retain stools and urates for longer periods. Even months. If you are careful, you can after a soak massage the area of the cloaca and gently express or squeeze out the urates, making sure not to press or squeeze too hard causing injury. A firm but gentle squeeze in the direction of the tip of the tail, is usually all it takes to extract retained urates.

-Angel"
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Works for me! you can do it while you soak him/her in the shower too, while the shower is running. Don't hold it's head in the water, but the rear portion of the snakes body, and let the shower hit the area, and gently massage the cloaca. If you give it a slight squeeze toward the tail, you can get him/her to pass urates usually; especially retained ones.

-Angel
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>>i got my blood on 9-5 and she has eaten 3 meals so far and hasnt defecated. the length of time is not worrying me because my ball generally takes awhile too, its the "stuff" i feel in her. i can feel a lot of urates, poo etc.. in her. i have soaked her twice. what else should i do? should i just wait some more? i think she is trying to defecate because she pees in her humidity hide and cage but its never the hard white urates. well any advice would be great.

What I have learned in the year and a half of owning my SST from a small one year old bit over a foot long dude to a now over 5 pound 3.5ft bad boy is....
Give them space to stretch out and move around, and give them humidity all the time. Mine has taken to pooping about every month, give or take and has obviously grown incredibly. I really see that he will take more than I would have thought to feed him and he also makes use of the space of a long tub. Works for me anyway. He had a few months when I first got him when he didn't poop. Remedies didn't do it (soaking or palpating) but having the higher humidity (there is condensation on one end of the tub at times) and giving him about half again to double the space I would have originally seems to have worked. He is due to move up in size again......haven't found to what yet though.
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Your girl really can go a couple of months easy without passing. If you are really worried, just place a water tub in her cage big enough that she can soak herself when she wants. Sometimes my bloods will soak for a couple of days at a time, they really seem to love it when they have the choice. Best wishes to you both.........

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Hey,
Looks pretty regal there in that chair. The crowned prince or Princes!
-Angel
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-Henry Miller.

ha, thanks.

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