Quote Originally Posted by bcr229 View Post
This. Now that said...
- If this critter was sold by PetSmart it likely wasn't in the best of health to begin with. We don't know if it was eating well when they purchased it.
- We do not know if the snake was set up correctly, especially for heat and humidity. We don't know if the snake wasn't eating because it was stressed, because it hadn't been well started, or because it was too cold. If your roommate bought the equipment based on the recommendation on the PetSmart employee it likely was not in a good setup.
- The snake hadn't eaten in two months.

Given all of that I very much doubt that the OP's assist feeding killed the snake. Assist feeding is recommended as a last resort but I've had a few breeders suggest sometimes people wait too long, and they wait so long that the critter is debilitated to the point that it physically can't digest the meal. This may have been such a case.
At any rate OP I doubt that you broke the snake's neck if it survived for several days after you fed it.

The pancake batter paste may have been Carnivore Care, which is often tube fed to a severely malnourished reptile.
I appreciate the information. I had mentioned to the roommate that a better hide should be in there. A note I forgot to mention was they bought the enclosure from a friend who's BP also died.
with it not being my pet, I didn't have any real say.
I also know that they handled the snake a dozen times or so since they bought it.
Again I'm not asking to point blame, I just felt their might have been other events involved. Not the best feeling in the world to be told you killed someone's pet.