Hello peoples,
hopefully someone can answer my questions, first I'll give you a bit of history.
I got a juvenile female Vietnamese Blue Beauty at the Red Deer show, from Katt. She's the funnest snake ever- as long as you respect her ^_^ She's been doing great, she eats incredible, and she's pretty active (although she doesn't like being watched) A week or so ago, I opened her enclosure to clean, and a peculiar smell drifted into the room. Musk; and yes I'm sure of it. The thing is, she's never musked me while I'm handling her. She'll snap if you touch her the wrong way or move too fast, but as for musking- never. I just figured maybe a cat had got into the room while she was out and scared her. So I cleaned it up and ignored it. But now, she musks in her enclosure all the time! Every time she urinates or poops, and just a couple days ago, when she shed. Is this bad? Why is she doing it? It's not a serious health issue- is it? Has anyone else had something like this happen? It's pretty putrid
Second question: today I took her out to clean (she'd musked again) her enclosure and to handle her a bit. She had this very odd bump on her side, around where her stomach is. It sticks out, you can see it if you look at her from a distance. It's quite hard, and about the size of a small pea. My mom suggested a mouse bone that hasn't been digested yet. She did eat an adult f/t mouse on the 14th (two days ago) It was her first adult mouse, previously she's been on rat pinkies (two per meal) and had no problem. It really scares me though, because I've never heard of a mouse bone sticking out like that. She does still have a small overall mouse bump, you can still tell it's in her. So my question is, is this nothing to worry about? Or is it really bad?
And Katt, if you read this- do you have her exact hatching date? I can't remember if I asked you when I emailed you.
Other than those things, she's doing great and is a pretty fun snake to have ^_^
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