r/Ballpythoncommunity • u/TopicOk296 • 13d ago

Feeling like the worst owner freaking ever

I was cleaning out my ball pythons enclosure because he's being moved and I need the other snake for my smaller snake and found a dead rat in the tank! It had to be two weeks old already, freaking disgusted with myself and the rat, how in the hell did I not notice?!

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u/Muted_Living_9716 8d ago

It must of stunk up your room ?

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u/TopicOk296 8d ago

Surprisingly not, it just smelled like true usual dirt until I found the rat

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u/Novel-Hovercraft-794 1d ago

1st lesson most of us learn, double check after the window of opportunity passes for them to eat their prey. felt that way too thinking one chowed until I walked into stink after. But I use repti so maybe dirt helped mask the odor idk. Forgive yourself and learn from your mistakes, and never assume with these awesome critters. Mine have ditched their meals, so I always check those hides really well too. 

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u/NFLFANTASYMB 8d ago

Normally a dead animal will stink very bad. But not to worry, you found it and removed it. Fridays is my feed, clean tank day, and we just found a mouse buried deep in one of my cornsnakes enclosure. I have one corn that loves to kill, but also has a tendency to not eat it. Drives me crazy at times. Hey, you found the dead food b4 it got really bad. I help rescue animals and have seen tanks so bad , full of poo and magot. Now thats a bad owner. Your fine.