Happened with my snake. Paid a licenced veterinarian who supposedly specialized in reptiles to look after her while I went away for two weeks. Didn't ask him to feed her, just make sure she was clean, humid, warm, and had water (I provided him with everything he'd need except the water itself).
Came to collect her and they'd put her in her tub for me (I don't transport her inside her tank because stress and it's more dangerous) and I took her home. Went to put her back in her tank and discovered she had had passed multiple uric stones and pooped and had been sitting it in for god knows how long.
(Ad naseum):
-Ball pythons don't like being in their own waste. Among the obvious reasons, ball pythons are ambush predators. They find a rodent den or termite mound, set up shop, and wait for something to wander by. This doesn't work well if the entire place smells like a snake, so they usually try and hold off on pooping/shedding until they're prepared to move to a new den. So anytime my snake poops, she tends to get EXTREMELY antsy and spend the entire night attempting to escape.
The point of all of this information is that, because she hadn't been cleaned in so many days, she had literally spent so much time trying to escape her enclosure she'd scraped up the top of her head and the tip of her mouth pushing them against the mesh lid of her tank.
Came to collect her and they'd put her in her tub for me (I don't transport her inside her tank because stress and it's more dangerous) and I took her home. Went to put her back in her tank and discovered she had had passed multiple uric stones and pooped and had been sitting it in for god knows how long.
-Ball pythons don't like being in their own waste. Among the obvious reasons, ball pythons are ambush predators. They find a rodent den or termite mound, set up shop, and wait for something to wander by. This doesn't work well if the entire place smells like a snake, so they usually try and hold off on pooping/shedding until they're prepared to move to a new den. So anytime my snake poops, she tends to get EXTREMELY antsy and spend the entire night attempting to escape.
The point of all of this information is that, because she hadn't been cleaned in so many days, she had literally spent so much time trying to escape her enclosure she'd scraped up the top of her head and the tip of her mouth pushing them against the mesh lid of her tank.