Formica...do what you want brother. I can tell you how ED clinicians approach human wound care in the US. When the literature for my specialty recommends against or for something, we try to employ those methods. I could give a rats a$$ about Wound Care International. Like I said, will it really really matter? Probably not, but that's not how it is done.
OP...your snake will be good...sorry to have jacked your thread