Rude snakes

[guidofatherof5]

Last evening, very late I went down to the big snake room. I had put my scrubs to bed about 3 hours before. I need to use my computer but yet I didn't want to disturb my snakes so I only used the TV/computer monitor for lighting. This meant the enclosure fans, floor fan and radio were all off.
While I worked on the computer I heard the sounds of my snakes. Moving in and out of hides and crawling through the artificial vines.
Then there was the ever present sounds of my big snakes defecating(pooping). I found myself laughing out loud at the sounds. All different and gross in themselves. It reminded me of the times I used to blow air on my kids bellies and it would make a farting sound. We would laugh until we hurt. These were the same kind of sound my big radixes were making. I couldn't concentrate on what I was working on and had to go back up stairs. Worms had been on the menu the day before and sound were particularly wet in nature. It was a riot.

[DIRK]

LOOOOOOOOOOOLLL

omg, i didn´t know that gartes can make such sounds....

This will be the next step....



Picture by lustich.de

[Snakers]

Story made my day

[Snakeknot]

I remember some nature show I was watching about the odd habits of animals, mentioning that the Sonoran Coral snake ( I think it was Sonoran ) has another defense tactic besides its venom : explosive, LOUD farting! I was just wondering how nature decided that deadly venom wasn't enough in this instance, that it needed more besides to insure this animal's survival and where in the world it thought that FARTING would be a good defense????

Devon

P.S. So is this what I have to look forward to when I get a garter??? How much AROMA is accompanied by this??? Will I have to buy extra scented candles and incense?? I thought the horses were bad!

[guidofatherof5]

Devon

P.S. So is this what I have to look forward to when I get a garter??? How much AROMA is accompanied by this??? Will I have to buy extra scented candles and incense?? I thought the horses were bad!

Very little smell at all. Using the right substrate should keep most smells to a minimum.
Pooping and musking are to different things. If their feces smelled like musk it would be a different story

[drache]

I've not noticed farting among my snakes, but when the larger ones take a dump I can definitely hear it
there is a story in some book I read in which a hot-shot young martial artist is overcome by the fart of a fat slob who had honed his diet to produce the most deadly mixture of methane gases the human body can manufacture

[ConcinusMan]

I've don't recall ever actually hearing my garters poop. That goes for even large garters of 3-4 feet long.

However... my jaw hit the floor and I LoL'd the first time I hear Jewels leave a big present for me. She likes to press her bass up against the glass and let it rip. I have to tell you, sometimes it's louder than I am. A nice wet sounding squish that reverberates throught the room. I was like WT?...!!!

It's not rude, just good food!

[snakeman]

Nothing beats eastern indigos!They crap ten times worse than garters and are triple the size!

[drache]

Nothing beats eastern indigos!They crap ten times worse than garters and are triple the size!

so I hear
and it's probably the one reason I don't have one yet

[ConcinusMan]

Nothing beats eastern indigos!They crap ten times worse than garters and are triple the size!

Like a beautiful woman, I could let that slide. Those snakes are gorgeous.

Anyway snakeknot, garter poop definitely doesn't smell pleasant. But niether does any other snake poop. I always check every day and clean up immediately whenever possible. It does stink. Jewels, (milk snake) poops and it has this terrible pungeant urine odor worse then cat pee, or it consists mostly of digested rodent meat and it smells like a rotting carcass. It's pretty bad. Still, with the right absorbent substrate and dilligent cleaning, it's not a problem. My tanks and my room do not stink.