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Dark side of Herpetology

Are you kidding? It's so much easier when the crap in the water bowls. oh man, if I could litter train them, I totally would!
 
DAND said:
bowl of soup. :eek:
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Haha, good way to put it.
I would definitely litter train them if I could, the soup is just gross and I'm just happy cleaning it out of the tub floor with paper towels instead, lol

Although... I am getting a little annoyed with my retic female. I swear she pees every single day. I feel like I change her enclosure more than anyone else, and she's the hardest to do too!
 
Your retic just wants more quality time with you :D

I don't understand the people that get happy because their snakes poop in the tub during swim time :ack2:

I don't poop in my tub so I don't think anybody else should either. Plus than you have to clean and disinfect the tub, rinse it real good, clean the snake again and clean whatever you put the snake in while you were cleaning the tub because they were just swimming in poop soup. :ack2:

Georgia, why not WV? I need someone snakey to hang out and get into (and out of) trouble with. The man just doesn't understand my obsession. Still gets the heebies whenever I'm opening shipping boxes and pulling out new jewels for the collection.
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PM or e-mail me and talk it up lady. I wouldn't mind knowing at least one person (especially a fellow snake lover) when I move. :yesnod:

I remember the first time I meet a snake face to face, wasn't even in kindergarten yet, I thought it was prettier than my mom's sparkly necklace. Snakes are actually the reason I like opals :rolleyes:
 
some great nuggets already posted. I'll concur that removing an 8' angry protective mother boa from her kids (slugs or not) is no picnic. I use a shield and just go for it. The very first time I smelled and cleaned up baby goo I must have dry heaved about 10 times.

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that has delt with overheated thawed rat guts, it happened just last year: I fed the large snakes, came back about 10-15 min. later to make sure everyone was eatting and there's one of my big girls with nasty greenish rat guts hanging out her mouth. I freaked and didn't know why it had happened, thought I had a 'bad rat', so I got paper towels, gently got her behind the head and started pulling guts out of her mouth by hand. It sure stunk too.

Another time I got a bunch of jumbo live rats from someone locally (about 15). The next morning the ex goes to leave for work, runs back in and says there's blood all over the side of his truck. Whoops. that will teach me not to whack rats outside in the dark. hee

I've also put down a very large dovii cichlid fish that was badly injured with blunt force head trama. ewwww but at least it was a quick death. I've heard I was 'tough' from a couple guy friends, just do what I gotta do if it's gotta be done.

Crickets really freak me out, go figure.
 
Twizted Paths said:
Worms, mealworms & leaches. If any of you seen me getting leaches off turtles you would never be able to look at me without laughing again.
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Video, or it didn't happen.

About the poo in water dishes, when you're dumping it into the toilet, and you're all smug, because you won't have to touch the poo. You'll just flush, then wash the dish.... and there's that chunk stuck.. and you shake the bowl..

Then the chunk of wet poo flies out sideways, does a twist midair heading straight for you.. you dodge, it weaves, you duck, and it bobs... and SPLAT.. it hits you. Self-guided, heat-seeking poo missles. Screw the SCUD, use those. The enemy would surrender, but the Geneva Convention would get involved.

Cursing is always involved. Never ever ever forget where snake poo is when doing laundry. Ruining a entire load of nice shirts because you FORGOT you tossed that towel full of smeared poo into the washer FULLY INTENDING to start it up right away....... not a good thing.
 
The most dangerous weapon in the world:

Dog poo on a stick.

Wolfy-hound said:
Cursing is always involved. Never ever ever forget where snake poo is when doing laundry. Ruining a entire load of nice shirts because you FORGOT you tossed that towel full of smeared poo into the washer FULLY INTENDING to start it up right away....... not a good thing.
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I use towels for a lot of my bedding. They get their own load, then the washer is run empty for a small load right after that.
 
Wolfy-hound said:
Video, or it didn't happen.

About the poo in water dishes, when you're dumping it into the toilet, and you're all smug, because you won't have to touch the poo. You'll just flush, then wash the dish.... and there's that chunk stuck.. and you shake the bowl..

Then the chunk of wet poo flies out sideways, does a twist midair heading straight for you.. you dodge, it weaves, you duck, and it bobs... and SPLAT.. it hits you. Self-guided, heat-seeking poo missles. Screw the SCUD, use those. The enemy would surrender, but the Geneva Convention would get involved.

Cursing is always involved. Never ever ever forget where snake poo is when doing laundry. Ruining a entire load of nice shirts because you FORGOT you tossed that towel full of smeared poo into the washer FULLY INTENDING to start it up right away....... not a good thing.
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Fortunately it does not exist & I do wish it never happened. Cameras are not allowed around me :D

I just buy packs of washclothes from Family Dollar, like 20 rags for $5 & throw them away. Part of me hates wasting the money & material but in reality it's worth it not to wash my work clothes in snake poop again.

I cleaned all their cages yesterday, had to redo one before I was even done with them all & 6 again today. And I forgot to take down the shower curtain before I let my little albino boy play on the rod, twisty stubborn serpent brat. :(
 
"intestinal garland" <-- Love that line!

I, too, have cleaned way too many overheated mice guts off of snakes and feeding containers. It takes quite a bit to make me barf, but the smell of that mess gets me very close to seeking the porcelain god.

Two herper friends and I took three snakes out with us for a walk late at night. One friend wondered what the wet stuff was hitting her feet. The female BP she was holding had decided to have a nice, runny poop all over. Thankfully, it only got on my friend's shoes and the road. We laughed at how we weren't "cleaning up after our pets."

The male BP I was holding got the last laugh, though. We were almost done with our walk, and he had maneuvered himself so that his tail was wrapped around my bra (go figure) and the front half of him was wrapped around my neck. I joked about him pooping down my shirt...and then a few minutes later, guess what? Ugh. Gross. Thankfully, I managed to stop it before it got to my pants, but it was all over my shirt and bra. If it hadn't been one of my favorite shirts, I might've thrown it out. The bra, on the other hand, did not stay long. Hee hee.
 
I have 18+ snakes while feeding them all on the same day or the vast majority anyway I usually thaw 18-20 rat/ rat pups at a clip. My wife usually helps in feeding the snakes. So when all were fed, we had confusion over the where abouts of one rat pup, thinking it was possible one snake was fed twice we let it go. WELL 2-3 days go by and the snake room is starting to develop a rather foul odor. So I go through all the cages checking and cleaning as i go along. All cages are clean yet the smell remains. Another day passes and the smell is more prominent and quite fierce to say the least. I tear the whole room apart to discover the missing rat pup. Somehow it fell between one of our snake racks and was definitely the source of the disgusting stench. She blames me and I blame her but needless to say even a small rat packs a big punch!!
 
What do you guys do to your frozen feeders that these horrible things happen to them?
Lol
I've yet to have one fall apart. I've never had to clean guts up either... just a little blood on the paper towels. (I bet tonight when I feed, someone shreds one all over the place :rolleyes: )
I don't thaw them in a bag though, I drop them right in the water in the thaw bucket and then I blow dry the heads with an old hair dryer to make them reallly warm when I'm about to hand them over.
Maybe the steam in the bags is what "melts" them? :ack2:
 
I don't know about you guys but..it takes a A LOT to make me gag or barf. I mean...I use to clean up ppl for a living and take care of them, all personal care...so when you have a grown person who wears briefs...and the stomach bug goes threw out the group home, you seem to gain a whole strong approach to everything. I mean..I can look at dead things...help animals have babies (I think it's an amazing thing)..and nothing bothers me. Baby booger suckers use to, but not any more, since I became a mom.

I'm in college to get my RN degree, so I gotta have some stomach.

Now for my..gross story...

The only time I ever really had any trouble with smells, or anything gross was when I was preg (most of us are this way) and I was fighting with my ex, because he was just being the jerk that he is..and of course the doctor told me I didn't need to be touching the reptiles. Well...I had rescued a savannah Moniter from a very bad situation..and at the time I was about 9 months preg, about to pop. I was sitting here on the phone with the soon to be new owner of the rescued savannah and as I'm talking to him..the savannah props it's self up on it's tail and take the most MASSIVE poo...EVER!...and at the time..I had the weakest stomach ever...LOL..and the ex was being a jerk and made me clean it..even though he knew the doc told me not to be touching that kind of stuff..I did it neways...

Like a week before that...the savannah had major MBD, as well as major impaction due to the horrid care it had recieved from the guy neglecting his pets because he discovered girls...the savannah took its first poo which was NICE TIMES the size of the one he took in front of me..we were in the living room watching tv..and I was like..omg..what's that smell....and sure enough..it had finally crapped and not only did it crap RIGHT under the heat lamp..it decided to walk threw it...smear it on the class....smear it on it's hide...smear it on the water dish..in a very short period of time. Talk about super gross...Now..the ex did clean that one..cause Of the weak stomach and I jumped up and went and made dinner haha...it's sad when the poo is twice the size of the lizard. Poor guy..not telling how long it had been before I got him..considering I know for a fact he went without heat for about 4 days before I got him.
 
i can relate to all these pretty much. i agree i prefer if the go to the bathroom in thier bowls, so much easier especially when you have 34 boas.
 
I'm late, I know. I still wanted to add my favorite gross me out story.

I live in Phoenix, AZ and if you didn't already know it, it gets effing out out here in the summer. I mean realllly hot.

A couple of summers ago I forgot I had purchased a number of f/t rat pups to feed to the gang and left them in my car overnight and then all the next day - in the middle of August. Needless to say, they got wet and gooey... all over my car seat. I had to park my car at the end of the lot because people complained about the smell. I thought I'd be smooth and pour bleach on it and buy a ton of strawberry airfresheners. Yeah.. rat goo mixed with bleach and strawberries.. yum.
 
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