Tidy little scrub

[ConcinusMan]

All my garters do that. Not every time, but they all do it. Amy does it every time I feed her. Sometimes she doesn't even wait 'till it's swallowed.

[The Snake Whisperer]

All of my Eastern garters also do that. In addition, I also find that they rarely ever defecate inside their hide boxes. Like all my corn snakes, my garters usually defecate in a corner of their enclosure near their water container, as far from their hide boxes as possible. Two smarter garters have figured out that if they defecate in their feeding containers after eating (I feed them in separate containers), they can REALLY leave their mess behind! ) These two regularly do this. My california kingsnake and my black rat snake also defecate consistently by their water container, away from their den.
My ball python however, seems to not care where she defecates. Maybe the ball python is unconcerned about cleanliness because like most birds, their feces drop away from them.
I suspect that other snake species who are ground dwellers are also clean and that tree dwelling snakes don't have this cleanliness instinct. Its a subject I've never seen mentioned in any scientific writing yet. Yet it's consistent-I've seen litters of baby garters be much cleaner about elimination habits than litters of puppies, yet we all know which species is considered more intelligent of the two!

[ConcinusMan]

My snakes don't seem to care where they dump. Sometimes they seem to prefer the water dish, but for the most part, especially if I stuff them with night crawlers, they poop everywhere. In their hides, on each other, in the water, everywhere!

[Mommy2many]

My snakes all like to wipe their faces. They also tend not to defecate in their hides but somebody always has to do it in the water dish (the big snakes)

[ConcinusMan]

Not so bad when I'm feeding rodents once or twice a week but the last couple of days, they've been pigging out on free (collected) night crawlers. What a mess! Poop everywhere! Seems like every time I change the water, someone takes a drink, then poops in it. And yes, it's the biggest (and currently gravid) concinnus that are doing it.

Also irritating is the fact that they don't just wipe their faces you know. I clean the glass, then they wipe their....

Right on the clean glass!!

[mustang]

hey atleast yalls snakes wipe their ... on the glass mine does it right where he does it....sadly sometime on my comphoerter

[Holly]

Noodle always poops on top of his hides. Tiny little jerk!

[mustang]

Noodle always poops on top of his hides. Tiny little jerk!

but now you know were to find it atleast

[guidofatherof5]

Mine love to wait until it's a group bath time. If I'm cleaning an enclosure, like tonight. I put all those snakes in a tub of water for a bath.
I always have another tub with water waiting. 5 to 10 minutes after the first tub is used I transfer them over to the second one.
The first one looks like Poop Soup. Sometimes it requires a 3rd tub but not very often.

[mustang]

oh jeez steve whyd you go and say that ill never look at soup the same