my ball ate a wood chip

[mykee]

You hook a ball python in the upper 2/5 of a ball python. Never in the middle, his heart and lung are there, you want to avoid compressing any major organs. You don't want to hook too low, as the stomach, especially after eating to get him back into his enclosure.
Try to get him just below the neck as he'll try to slither away and any lower he'll fall of the hook.
Good luck.

[Jesse C]

Thanks for all the tips. One more question, how do i know if she's constipated?
How often do they go? she went the day that i got her and its been a week and a half now, and nothing

[C#@$e]

if your ball is constipated he well feel more soft like almost squishy above the cloaca.
and guys tell me if im wroung

[mykee]

OK, you're wrong. You can't "feel" squishy, if anything you'll feel harder. Constipation means the waste is lacking water which makes motility more difficult, "squishy" would be the opposite.
As for your snake being constipated, did he eat too much cheese?
Snakes poop whenever they want, I pooped three times today, yesterday; once. They poop when THEY want to, not when YOU want them to. Don't stress the small things, they'll be enough big things, don't worry...

[Aaron_S]

Mykee, did I ever tell you how I enjoy your replies?

[mykee]

Aaron, you're the only reason I still post here...

[Aaron_S]

To keep me sane? Yah thanks for that

[C#@$e]

ohh i could have swore i heard that some wear ohh well.

[springtech]

I hear alot of things, all the time, that always contradict every other thing I heard in the first place. I find with forums you have to read a billion threads and sift through them carfully to find the general accepted method etc.

[PDXErik]

Originally Posted by mykee

Yeah, that's what hook training means. Sometimes I think the owner needs more hook training (getting used to using a hook on the correct part of a snake) than the snake needs to get used to having a hook used on it.
As for removing the snake from it's enclosure, it's completely unnecessary UNLESS you keep your snake on loose substrate.
Use this thread as a lesson.

I feed in their normal enclosures with no problems at all.

My new little 0.1 albino BCI jerkwad super-b(four more letters...) is hook training me.

[LadyParvati]

Come on, guys--why would a snake poop every day? We poop every day because we eat every day! Snakes will poop within a couple of days or three after eating, but generally not again--unless, as Mykee so beautifully
(just teasing!) explains, it happens to feel like pooping again.

Snort! LOL Sandy