Quote Originally Posted by kzooherpetoculturist
that's only happened to me one time, it was during a live feeding. he'd chew and chew and occsionally bash the pinky against the side of the cage. it looked like a slow death so i feed frozen now without incident... he just slithers up and swallows it down. the white stuff is possibly brain matter.
i would imagine they're basically punching the mouse full of holes as they purposely do this to toads in the wild because of the way toads puff up as a defense mechanism.
i dont believe their fangs actually inject venom, though i could be wrong.
Alright, thanks. It was live as this guy will not take f/t. I have a hard time believeing that it was caused by its saliva (some concider saliva, others concider venom) as its delievery could not inject enough to cause it to start breaking down the prey that quick. I was thnking about it more and more today.