Yeah, I had small hatchling thayeri in the early 90's that suffocated half-way into eating a prekilled pinkie or anole(can't remember which it was now). I Came back about a half hour later and the pinkie was still half-way down it's mouth and to my amazement, it was dead as a door nail.

I have also heard of snakes drowning in home-made watebowls with holes cut out in the middle of the lids to keep them from spilling too. Apparently when they crawl inside with their entire body, the water level can easily rise up to the top of the lid, and they go around it circles of the bowls edge where the lid is snapped down frantically searching for the escape route instead of going out of the hole in the center that they used to get in.

..........sad but true..





~Doug

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