While puncture wounds from a snake's fang arn't exactly done as gently as a physician's needle, it's not the doomed wound that TV makes it out to be...

Now for your snake...
1)Could it be stressed, and these were defensive bites, thus venom conserved? (from your story, I doubt it, but perhaps?)

2)I think it would be more likely that your atrox is having a delivery problem than the mouse having super immunity. Dehydration (I think it'd have to be pretty drastic), facial tumours (bilateral, or large enough to block both sides...look inside the mouth), or perhaps a hormonal or metabolism disease that is affecting venom production. For example, (I"m just talking out of my arse now because I don't know the metabolic pathways for venom production) if this animal is in kidney failure, the hormones produced by the kidney are no longer excreted, and venom is no longer produced... get what I'm leaning towards?

Good luck with your snake

Ian

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• Mouse Immunity? - PatrickR, Tue May 30 17:03:58 2006
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• RE: Mouse Immunity? - PatrickR, Thu Jun 1 15:57:51 2006
• RE: Mouse Immunity? - LarryF, Wed May 31 16:56:21 2006
• This one's a long shot but.. - Ryan Shackleton, Wed May 31 21:16:52 2006
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