Handling after feeding

[Minkness]

My moko pooped AND peed on me when I held him the first time at the expo....luckily I had his butt facing outward so it fell in an elegant arch of nastiness to the concrete floor, just missing a passer by lol

I knew then I had to have him XD

Oh, and so far, he hasn't pooped outside of hisbtank since I've had him, which is a good thing since he poops like a great dane >_>

[treaux]

To the OP, I've vote for waiting 48 hours at this point. That's because I just learned the hard way with my BP Munch. He's always been a bit more fearful and skittish and he had just had a good shed and ate a fuzzy rat. I took him out to show a friend the next day (this was over 24 hours at this point) just for a few minutes and he appeared scared the whole time. I tried to calm him down as best I could and let him go back into his hide. The next morning there was an amazingly stinky regurgitated fuzzy rat in the middle of his cage along with a little pile of diarrhea (and another diarrhea the next day as well). Needless to say, I felt pretty bad for making him upchuck his dinner. I cleaned his cage and have been letting him be ever since and he hasn't come out of his hide for several days.

My other BP Quorra has no fear and will come crawling out to be held even if she just ate. I feel like there's no risk of her regurgitating out of fear.

As for peeing or pooping, that's a different story. Snakes do that when they feel like it, so that's a reasonable fear. Both my BPs will eat 3-5 meals before making a poop and when it happens it's gigantic. If I notice their rear end is especially fat and it's been a while since they pooped, I usually won't handle them for very long. Haven't been pooped on yet. Peed on, yes.

[prairiepanda]

Sometimes I can tell that a snake's butt is loaded, and I find it helps to put them in a tub of water(or just the tail, if they don't like baths) and that gets them to poop. That eliminates the chance of accidental poops, even though it won't stop intentional poop attacks.