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i have a 3 ft bull snake that is in good health, feeding regularly and gaining weight but she hasnt had a bowel movement for the last 2 or 3 feedings is this normal, if not what can i do to get her back on track? thank you atrox182

You may try soaking the snake in lukewarm water every other day. In my experience, the water encourages bowel movement. Also, make sure there's a thermal gradient in the cage. If kept too cool, food may begin to rot in the snakes stomach and create all sorts of nasty health concerns.

-AzAtrox

thanks for the advice, ill give the warm warter a go and see what happens. atrox182

Yes, follow the warm water suggestion. I've had two snakes do this before(both albino Southerns oddly enough). The one would get a visible lump in it and sometimes I'd have to soak it two or three times before it would go. It seemed healthy otherwise, but I found it dead one day when it had seemed fine the day before.

With the other one, when it would go, there seemed to be an abnormal amount of hair in it, so I began feeding it smaller meals with less hair and it seemed to help. It now seems to go on its own just fine(it's 3 y.o. now). Hopefully yours will grow out of it, too.

thanks for the advice. atrox182