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    Snake wellness based on...

    POOP. Is there a certain look that a snakes fecal matter would look like that would be a red flag that something was wrong with its health? The reason I bring it up is today was snack day (nightcrawlers). On Friday everyone ate pinkys. So after mamma snake ate her dish of cut up worms she left me a deposit of poo right on the dish. It just looked kinda white/yellowish snot. Sorry, trying to be as descriptive as possible, not gross for grossness. Sorry no pic, didn't think. Cause for concern? Or normal?

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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    Lol...I was just thinking...we have a thread for that! Ha ha. We don't think poop is gross on here...we discuss it all the time! It sounds to me though like you may have been looking at urates and not poop. although urates are usually powdery...but I have seen snotty looking poo before.
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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    My kingsnake leaves me items of that description all of the time; think of a raw egg with a black yolk. The yellow stuff seems to dry into a fine powder. This is all from a rodent-only diet.

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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    Yeah I get mucusy looking poos sometimes to. Well I mean my snakes do... I dont think its any cause for concern as long as it does not persist and the snake is in good overall health.
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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    Quote Originally Posted by thamneil View Post
    Yeah I get mucusy looking poos sometimes to. Well I mean my snakes do... I dont think its any cause for concern as long as it does not persist and the snake is in good overall health.

    Good recovery Neil. I would have been all over that post.
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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    I really did see that coming, hence my clarification
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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    Thanks to all, Steve for the poo link, all is normal. I say urine is what I saw that maybe had not dried yet to the white powdery look. The look on my wife's face by the way when I asked her to check the poo thread I just started that then went into her following Steve's thread about the subject with pics while eating a bowl of cereal...... priceless!

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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    Quote Originally Posted by Dan72 View Post
    POOP. Is there a certain look that a snakes fecal matter would look like that would be a red flag that something was wrong with its health?
    White, tapey, wormy things in the **** isn't normal. Apart from that, couldn't say.

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    Re: Snake wellness based on...

    Or blood.
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