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My classic, Sati, has picked up a behavior the past few weeks that was funny at first but now has become a bit of a problem. Every time I take her out of her tank, she poops and I mean it is every time I take her out. She can go in her tank and I will clean it out; and if I go to take her out to hold or play with her she poops. She has pooped on both me and my boyfriend numerous times and the furniture...I'm even tempted to create some type of a diaper for her lol. Any suggestions would be helpful.
 
Are you putting her away after she does it? If so- I know it's gross, but refrain from placing her back in her cage for 5-10 minutes after. My lavender used to poop on me ALL the time, but I kept handling and eventually he realized that he would not get away from the scary monster by pooping. He even has stopped musking for the most part.
Also, you can tell when they are about to poop because they will get a bulge near their cloaca, you can just put them away when you notice that and avoid getting the mess on you.
 
reddragon087 said:
My classic, Sati, has picked up a behavior the past few weeks that was funny at first but now has become a bit of a problem. Every time I take her out of her tank, she poops and I mean it is every time I take her out. She can go in her tank and I will clean it out; and if I go to take her out to hold or play with her she poops. She has pooped on both me and my boyfriend numerous times and the furniture...I'm even tempted to create some type of a diaper for her lol. Any suggestions would be helpful.
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It's pretty common for a snakes bowels to let loose after being handled, haha, so don't feel bad. It's most likely from all of the exercise that gets their stomach churning. When I first got my rescue adult male, he would not go in his tank, he would only go once I took him out. I can only infer this was because before I obtained him, he wasn't living in the best of conditions, and feared having to live in his own filth like he did before I got him. I could be way off, however. A trick you can try is putting your snake in a washbin/sterilite storage tub/etc. with some room temp/luke warm water, let him swim around for 5-10 mins, and usually this method and will produce a poo pretty often. Then you can proceed with handling your snakey and not have to worry about a poo-poo surprise!
 
My first corn snake woody he has poop on me like 2 times he has not done it again but yeah it is normal and the smell is really bad lol.
 
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