My ball python just seemingly farted VERY loudly twice. Shes let out a tiny bit of clear glueish looking stuff (a rain drop amount) and in it was a tiny bit of blood. Shes never done this before and shed a few hours ago. Apart from the fart she seems fine and healthy. Has anyone else got a ball that farted?
**She got probed today - might that be a contributing factor?

does it kill the eggs? i have 2 baby goats with lice and they had it on them for about an hour and a half but they got really hot so we gave them a bath.... what should we do? did the dust work?

Can anyone give me a list of Ball python breeders?

How do I know when my baby royal python is about to shed. He seems to be getting these small dry patches on his body- but his eyes aren t cloudy like i was told wouldhappen. He also ate yesterday and i was told that they will sometimes not eat when they are close to shed.

Please let me know- and give me links to more information.

Our 2 rats were on a wire-floored cage- and I had read that they could get blisters on their feet... we ve had them for several weeks now- and they are getting blisters. I have moved them to a cage that has sawdust flooring- but a wire shelf. The blisters aren t bad yet- but there are many of them.

Question #1: Is this something to be concerned about? If so- how do we treat it?

Question #2: Is the wire shelf ok?

Question #3: Do the rats feel any pain? How much?

Question #4: I read that Bumblefoot is caused by Staph. (Site: http://exoticpets.about.com/od/careofrats/p/bumblefoot.htm) Should we be worried about getting Staph after handling the rats? If I fed these rats to my ball python- would she have a chance of getting Staph?

If you can answer any of these questions- please do! I d appreciate any personal experiance from rat owners or vets! We really love these guys- and we want them to be healthy.

Thanks in advance!!!
As a response to the subject AWS brought up- I would only feed a rat to my snake if it were in constant pain that was uncureable. And I agree that live feeding is cruel- and for months I ve been trying to get her to eat prekilled rats- but she ll only eat live. Also- she kills them very quickly; I m sure its just as humane (and a bit more natural) as euthanizing them. After all- that s what they do in the wild!

I want to display the music I am listening to on pandora in my ichat status like the itunes music option. I know some python and javascript is there anyway to edit preference files and change this or create a python program that updates my status.
I know this is a complicated question just if anyone has any experience with this kind of thing can you help me.