We (pet store) had this happen once and the snake had torn it's esophagus ....possibly or probably from a struggling semi dead/live prey. In my mind this is another reason to not feed live.






>>A customer of mine bougth a couple of live mice (despite that I always tell my customers to buy frozen if possible) for his ball python.
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>>He said the next day, he looked in and it had regurgitated the mice and was dead. It was doing fine for four years.
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>>The only thing I could think of would be:
>>1) Poor heat gradient (although that doesn't really explain the death)
>>2) Parasites in the snake, or other disease.
>>3) Poisonous mice??? No idea how that would have happened.
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>>Any thoughts?
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• What could have caused this? - Nicodemus, Tue Mar 25 11:34:56 2008
• RE: What could have caused this? - reticguy2, Tue Mar 25 12:46:17 2008
• RE: What could have caused this? - Sonya, Tue Mar 25 20:07:08 2008