About 15 years ago, I had a newly acquired hatchling kingsnake(thayeri) that died right smack in the middle of eating a large(for it's size) freshly killed anole(lizard). Apparently it couldn't situate it's glottis(windpipe) properly enough to accommodate for the rather huge meal. Since the large meal had no fur, I actually think it "helped" make a better "air-tight" seal when combined with the saliva, thus leading to it's suffocation.

20-30 minutes after I noticed it wasn't ANY further along with the meal than it was before, to my dismay, it was indeed..... "dead as a door-nail"


Needless to say, I won't do THAT again!, I shouldn't have offered it one that big in the first place!...GRRR!



~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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• HELP! - goregrind, Sat Mar 22 14:47:57 2008
• RE: HELP! - markg, Sun Mar 23 02:51:37 2008
• took well over an hour - goregrind, Sun Mar 23 05:50:59 2008
• RE: took well over an hour - dekaybrown, Sun Mar 23 07:03:27 2008
• RE: took well over an hour - choppergreg74, Sun Mar 23 08:34:10 2008
• RE: took well over an hour - DMong, Sun Mar 23 13:51:28 2008
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