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Photos from a necropsy (force feeding) GRAPHIC

It's interesting to see someone else's results in a snake necropsy. I've done one before, and it was really fascinating to get to know the animals we love inside as well as out.
 
Wow I didn't see the link at first and I thought the pic in your signature was the pic. I was like... I don't get it. LOL
 
Great information.

This really stood out:
The abundance of fat tissue serves as a reminder that most captive reptiles are overfed, and suffer the associated decrease in longevity.
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Thank you for sharing this. The loss of these animals is incredibly sad, but it is fortunate that they were left in the hands of a knowledgeable person. The necropsy results are very interesting, especially the evidence supporting a conservative diet. We need more information like this on snakes in captive conditions.
 
Brent, I agree. This was actually posted on another forum where we were discussing the feeding of burmese and reticulated pythons and whether you can safely control adult size by feeding smaller prey items more often.

It is essentially a debate of identifying the line between not power feeding and starving the snake. Good conversation so far, and I felt the implications of that article would also be valuable to those of us who keep smaller snakes.
 
Out of curiosity, I'd be interested in seeing a necropsy of a similar aged adult in order to compare the two.
 
Very interesting! We just lost our Illaden over the weekend and I wanted to see what was inside that lump of his that just kept growing. It was starting to actually split open and had turned black. But Mike wouldn't let me open him up. He was afraid it was a parasite or something that would spread through the house. We had kept him separated from the others just in case. Our little orange amel Amelia also has a lump but hers hasn't grown at all to where Illaden's kept growing. Because of our move, I was never able to get him to the vet. Amelia is nowhere near any of the other snakes and is starting to move a llittle slower. I just wish he would have let me do a necropsy on him. I took pics and will post them later. It broke my heart to lose him and would have been tough doing the necropsy on him, but would have been interesting.

thanks for sharing that with us!
 
Thank you for sharing the link with us. I have done necropsies on chameleons before but have yet to do one on a snake. Robbie said it best- it is good to know the animals we love on the inside as well as the out.
 
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