Splitting snakes - Page 2

jaleely · 11-12-12, 10:46 PM

I think snakes can die from food getting stuck. It would only split through the stomach, and the outside, if it was something like...a goat head with a horn (jeez, what?)

After more experience, i would say that most of the time the snake would regurge. In the case of the corn snake in that thread...i think the prey item was too big..and from the photo...it looked like the snake could not regurgitate it for some reason. It looks stuck.

But i sure did worry about nails on my feeder rats for a while. LOL wow that was a while ago.

**Aaron_S** · 11-13-12, 10:07 AM

Snakes have been doing this for far longer than we've been keeping them.

This is a classic case of over-thinking something. I've never seen a snake eat a meal it couldn't handle. They just spit it out or regurge it. They aren't too dumb to sacrifice themselves for a meal.

Donnie · 11-13-12, 02:43 PM

I think that only sharp claws, horns, prey still alive when eaten etc would be reason for a snake to 'burst' and nothing to do with the physical size of the prey. As already said if it was to big then they would regurge (spit it out) it when they got to the part of it they couldn't get their mouth around.

**lady_bug87** · 11-13-12, 04:14 PM

That is a huge *** snake

iBaman · 11-13-12, 05:21 PM

"shh, shh...it'll all be over soon...shhhhhh...."
that was AWESOME!!