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Regurges: Rare or No?

Saffleur said:
Except that the feeding schedules is your responsibility...not the snakes which has nothing to do with their health.
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Exactly..... so a healthy snake may regurge, which was my point. I was trying to feed Gunn one day earlier (this was before Dean changed his schedule) to put some weight on him... Weightwise per Dean's schedule, Gailleann should have been able to handle that small adult. Obviously, she wasn't. Neither issue had anything to do with their health or lackthereof
 
Which goes back to what I said...the feeding schedule you keep has nothing to do with the snakes health...you chose to feed the snake one day earlier...snakes an animal it sees food it eats.

That has nothing to do with whether or not the snake is healthy. Obviously if you were to say neglect the snake it's overall health would decline or if you gorged it that it would become fat...but a healthy snake doesn't regurge. They are opportunistic in feeding so if you the owner over feed them that is your fault not the snakes...they are doing what they do by instinct...
 
Saffleur said:
Which goes back to what I said...the feeding schedule you keep has nothing to do with the snakes health...you chose to feed the snake one day earlier...snakes an animal it sees food it eats.

That has nothing to do with whether or not the snake is healthy. Obviously if you were to say neglect the snake it's overall health would decline or if you gorged it that it would become fat...but a healthy snake doesn't regurge. They are opportunistic in feeding so if you the owner over feed them that is your fault not the snakes...they are doing what they do by instinct...
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Obviously, your definition of a "healthy" snake and mine is different. If I took either of these two snakes to a vet they would get a clean bill of health... which in my book makes them "healthy" snakes.
 
I agree. You can easily make a healthy snake regurge by poor husbandry choices. Feeding too large a prey item. Feeding before the previous meal is digested. Not providing optimal temperatures. Maybe feeding when the snake is blue. Handling or otherwise stressing the snake while it is digesting. I think health-related regurges are the exception, not the rule. If your snake regurges, and you correct (or already have provided correct) all possibly husbandry issues, and it continues to regurge, then there is some physiological cause, which you may or may not be able to find, and correct, before it is too late.
 
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