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I wanna know something about snake poop.
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Why does boa poop look like normal poop, but corn snake poop look like mouse intestines?
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11/10/2010 1:06:26 PM
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JohnJohn
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Normal poop? Mouse intestines? I guess everyone's poop is a little different and unique!
My dog chewed up his favorit toy and then had string and yarn coming out his butt for days!
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Accepted Answer
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11/10/2010 3:08:56 PM
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Sonja K. Reptiles
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Just a guess, but perhaps it has to do with their rate of metabolism??? Less "formed" in ones with a higher rate of metabolism???
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11/10/2010 6:53:59 PM
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gfx
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Colubrids are messy and/or you're feeding them too much volume and they're not using it all.
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11/10/2010 9:25:44 PM
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aaron
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sweet. happy that POOP finally got tagged.
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11/11/2010 12:21:57 AM
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HurricaneJen
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Seems to be related to metabolism, like previously mentioned - the longer between poos, the more formed they seem to be. Species that are spend a lot of time in water have big, nasty, foul, wet poops that get everywhere. You think cornsnake poop is bad, try a cribo on for size, those are rancid!
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Member Comment
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11/11/2010 11:22:46 AM
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wintersreptiles
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Or a russian rat snake, he lets you know when its time to clean.
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Member Comment
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11/12/2010 7:24:15 PM
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Floof
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I think the "mouse intestines" thing you're seeing is actually just mouse hair in the poop. I've dealt with lots of corn snake poop, and up until they hit fully furred mice, their poop doesn't have that half digested hair/"mouse intestines" look.
As for why the look/form varies... I have no idea, but the metabolism rate idea mentioned by Jen and Sonja sounds like a pretty reasonable explanation...
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Author Comment
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11/12/2010 8:07:51 PM
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BirchbarkBoas
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Thank you to everyone who replied to this topic lol. I only own two types of snakes: boas, and a corn snake (my first reptile). I always thought my corn snake's poop looked like intestines, all tube-like and weird and stuck together with urates and hair and eew lol. She is an adult, and certainly not overfed. :) Then my boas, they poop like dogs, with some urate clumps here and there. The metabolism thing makes a ton of sense, but I wonder if there's more to it. Maybe something more to do with the digestive process.
Poop is fun to talk about. *goes to clean some up, which isn't quite as fun*
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