Is this a regurge?

[Foxide]

I found this in one of my snake's enclosures today, is it a regurge? It doesn't smell like anything and as far as I know the snakes all ate last week. I got them on Monday.

Thanks.

 

[Foxide]

* Sorry, I meant over a week ago, not last week.

 

[bitsy]

Looks like a regurge, but they usually honk to high heaven. May just be a partially-digested pinkie in the poop.

Following the regurge protocol won't do any harm if you're concerned.

 

[Cattsy]

looks like a poop to me... lol

 

[VickyChaiTea]

Ehhh... I would call it a regurge just to be safe, I can see a little leg in there which is not found in healthy stools. So go ahead and follow regurge protocol.

 

[Rdoyle]

look like poop to me. I dont think that is a leg i think it is the way it looks like. The only way to know for sure is to try to cut it open. If it had bone it might be regurge if not then it is poop.

 

[Bartholomew]

Noo. I would go with a regurge also. Dosnt look like normal poop.

 

[Nanci]

I vote regurge. What size mouse was it? It's very formed, and I don't think I see any urates.

 

[Foxide]

I don't know the size of the mouse as he wasn't fed by me, but this is the size of the regurge/poop compared to an AA battery. Also, 7 hours on and there's still no smell coming from it.

 

[Bartholomew]

I bet the more something dries the less it smelles. Like dog poop. If you leave it out for a good while, it will dry up and it will hardly smell. I think its the same with this. This might sound crazy, but drizzle some water on it, then smell it. See whats up.

 

[Foxide]

I bet the more something dries the less it smelles. Like dog poop. If you leave it out for a good while, it will dry up and it will hardly smell. I think its the same with this. This might sound crazy, but drizzle some water on it, then smell it. See whats up.

I tried this, and only if you smell it really close up and for a few seconds you pick up a very faint slightly sweet smell. Otherwise it pretty much smells like nothing. The smell of wet paper towel is far more prominent.

 

[Foxide]

Actually, after sampling the scent of many snake and non-snake related things I think I can attribute the sweet smell to aspen bedding..

Yes, I've been smelling things around the house for the past 20 or so minutes to find similarities. I'm still going to err on the side of caution and assume it's a regurge.

 

[Susielea]

You could drop it in a glass of water (note, do not use this glass to drink from afterwards without disinfecting it first! ) and stir it up, if it dissolves/disintegrates almost completely it's probably poop. If it holds its shape or defines to the shape of a mouse more then its probably a regurge. Hmm yeah, that sounds pretty gross but it's worked for me and I heard it from someone on here

Also as previously mentioned, a regurge usually smells pretty dang nasty, like really gross, but if you don't notice it immediately and it's a small food item that manages to dry out some before you find it, then it can lose a lot of its smell.

 

[Nanci]

Was he fed and then moved? Like to your house?? Then I really suspect a regurge. Snake poo smells like snakes, not sweet.

 

[ShenziSixaxis]

I'd say poop, albeit not the most healthy one I've seen. I've seen three different regurges, and they stink bad enough to make me want to regurge too.

Try what Sue said to do. If it is a stool, maybe keep an eye on the snake that produced it and see if any more weird stools pop up. If more do, I'd say take it to a vet for a fecal test. Otherwise, I'd say this just might have been a weird digestion.

 

[SnakeAround]

I have found regurges with little smeel, just like one overnight left pinky will smell aweful and another in the tub next to it just smells a bit 'sweet' indeed.

 

[VickyChaiTea]

I second the dropping it in a glass idea.

Though it could be a regurge, it could also be a poorly digested pinkie.

 

[Foxide]

I tried stirring it in the water, and immediately it started getting that all too familiar smell of "dead" that emerges when my cat brings something in. It started breaking apart and except for the match of course, and some black flakes that I couldn't get out of the water, this is what I found:

From the length of the tail I'm wondering what size of prey this could have been.. It doesn't look like the tail of a fuzzy/hopper to me..

 

[Rdoyle]

that almost looks like other snake tail, and that looks like a frogs leg!

 

[Rdoyle]

or maybe a Lizard with a mouse.