Rotten meat

[Francesco Tri]

In the cases of this Hierophis and Crotalus, Euthanasis was the best, I think!
Once the intestine is affected, there's little chance to recover. You should think about digestion fluids, allways leaking into the abdominal cavity, making a lot of problems (digestion of all the organs).
On the other hand, it is well known from captive kept snakes, that very dangerous looking injuries will cure quite well.
There are many reports, when snakes get cut from rat or rabit teeth through the oesophagus and even through the outer skin and these injuries cure good. But in the oesophagus there are no digestion fluids (at least only very little saliva).
Btw, it is no good exercise, to euthanase a snake by freezing, although we no nothing on pain feels on these kind of animals.
Friends of mine did it with an apperox. 80 cms Bitis arietans. After 2.5 to 3 hours it was still alive!

Mario

Dear Mario, I am veterinarian, and I have a mental predisposition to care for the animals ...

But this does not mean that the snake was actually only to suppress

[Lucas Schmeißing]

I found this Natrix n. persa female in southern Montenegro last week.

2 big wounds full with maggots, I found it on the way yet moving very slowly.
Must be an old female, it measured 115cm and a big part of its tail was missing.
I assume it was caused by a cat, saw very much of them there.
2 days later I found it dead few meters away.

Lucas

[Julius Zidorn]

Bad to see that.

These cats are the biggest problem for reptiles in many regions

[Daniel Bohle]

Today I found my long term friend KE28 and he was not in a good shape at all.
Well, don´t know if this will be his end - looks not too bad but he was quite thin.
I know him since 2007 that year I saw him just once.
In 2008 I found him two times in spring - probably his first year with interest for the ladies
In 2009 5 times, in 2010 9 times, 2011 just 6 times and 2012 11 times.
No numbers for this year but in spring he accidentally jumped on a scale and later he crawled along a folding rule
So with his ~9 years he was 54cm and 90g - second biggest from all males in that pop.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Interesting!