Mario Schweiger wrote: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