Children's Python pooped in her shed? lmao

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ThistleProse

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Hi,

so, its not real easy to google this so I thought I'd risk starting a new thread.

Last night I was checking my girl, and gave her a pat, and she bit me (she's never bitten in the two years I've had her) and then followed me across the tank to stare at me out the glass. IDK. I just knew she was hungry, so I grabbed a mouse for her and warmed it up. She took it immediately, and vanished into her favourite hide with it.

Just now (approx. 14 hours later) I sat down to ask her if she was feeling better (yes lol. really) and she kept staring at me and she was tight in a way that I just took to mean she was hungry again, so I got her another mouse, and she took it right away. Once she'd vanished with it back into her hide, I was able to grab the shed I spotted beside the hide, and drag it out.

It was whole, but it also contained a freaking gross lump that was definitely at one point last night's mouse. The stench was awful lmao (it was hidden right beside her hide, so under the heat). I tossed it in the garden outside lol.

She wasn't showing any signs of shedding when I fed her last night, but I'd also previously been away for 3 days so there is that to consider.

Previously she's been finicky with eating since winter, mostly only taking a mouse every 20-30 days. Apparently we're back to wanting to eat more frequently, lol. Prior to last night/today her last meal was on the 18th, so a week and a half ago.

Is this in any way normal? She's never bit before, but that was definitely a hungry strike as she expressed no fear or agression last night or today, so I'm not worried about that. But pooping in her shed is both gross and new and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something to stress about.

Nyissa tax:


(that's her sauna she's resting her chin on. She's a real princess and needs really high humidity or she sheds in pieces, lmao. Her actual water is at the other end of the tank)
 
It's common and nothing at all to worry about. I like it, makes cleaning easier when it's all nicely bagged up.

I've been working with snakes for about 30 years, I couldn't count how many thousands I've worked with, and I still talk to them all the time (and have been laughed at for it, which doesn't bother me in the slightest).
 

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