Burmese Python always trying to get out?

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by Mark Taylor

Don't want you to be worried but have you heard of IBD is he looking up a lot might be early stages if so you might want to quarantine him for a few months so you other snakes are safe.

the thing everyone seems to forget about IBD is.....

there are a lot more symptoms than star gazing or strange body movments..

for example (pasted in from info i have bookmarked,not my own writing)...

re IBD
Signs of infection in boas include central nervous system disorders such as paralysis, being unable to right itself when turned over, "star-gazing", inability to strike or constrict. Other signs include chronic regurgitation, extreme weight loss, respiratory infections, and dysecdysis due to the inability to control body movements enough to rub off the old skin. The disease is rapidly fatal in young and juvenile boas, typified by rapid onset of flaccid paralysis.


In pythons, the disease progresses much more rapidly than in boas. Along with the above symptoms (excluding the chronic regurgitation), pythons also tend toward infectious stomatitis ("mouth rot"), heightened or exaggerated reflex responses, disorientation (which may be precipitated by the onset of central blindness) and loss of motor coordination.

IMO before suggesting IBD,it would be better asking people...if the snake in question,shows any other symptoms,before alarming them with IBD


also Pythons die within 4 weeks after FIRST showing symptoms,so suggesting that the op should quarantine for months,tells me you have not researched this disease enough,to suggest someones snake has it...!!

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i'm NOT being cheeky mate,i'm merely pointing out,before suggesting something so serious,and alarming a new keeper,research the disease and ask about other symptoms

plenty snakes behave the way the op's does


cheers shaun

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by Mark Taylor

I may have jumped the gun so to speak. I do my research the same everyone else, it just so happens that I recently read about it and thought it might be of interest to him to see if maybe that wasn't the only sign that something was wrong.

The part were he said its always going up the side of the glass (looking up)

His snake may be completely fine and just likes to explore but he raised the question in concern I believe.

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MY APOLOGIES MATE...

i only read the above quote,AFTER i made the post above

cheers shaun

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by Squirtle

Don't take my word for it, but snakes are pretty dumb. They might not think there's glass in their way on their "Journey to freedom" (escaping by pushing glass). All my snakes that I've owned have done it before, I don't know what kind of caging you have, but if they're trying to escape via screen top, then that can be a problem.

yes mate.....

how many times have you seen a snake try and strike you,only to smack its head off the glass,for the 10th,20th,time

for being around so long,you'd think they would be more clever lol

cheers shaun

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by shaunyboy

yes mate.....

how many times have you seen a snake try and strike you,only to smack its head off the glass,for the 10th,20th,time

for being around so long,you'd think they would be more clever lol

cheers shaun

does it make me a bad person to laugh when they do this? Mine has smacked HARD against the glass and just kinda sat there stunned with its mouth still opened and pressed up against the front like some sort of kid making ugly faces at me. Missed the rat by just an inch and BAM snake face. Its only funny when they dont get hurt but I cant help but laugh when they do silly little things like this.