JordanAng420
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What I believe you are referring to here is what is known as gastrointestinal stasis, and putrefacation of ingesta in response to suboptimal temperatures. Meaning that, when the snakes environmental temperatures are inadequate, the food item is not digested properly, which sometimes causes it to, for lack of a better word, ROT in the GI system. The snakes body then shuts the functions of the digestive system down in response to the "foreign body" that cannot be properly digested, which is called "stasis". The whole process has nothing to do with the when the prey animal last ate before it was euthanized, and if it has been frozen or not. The only major disadvantage to feeding frozen thawed is the deterioration of labile nutrients when the animal is frozen.
As far as hepatic lipadosis goes, or "fatty liver disease", excess lipid deposition in the liver can be from but not limited to a a number of things INCLUDING toxins, oxygen deprivation and impaired metabolisms of carbs and volatile fatty acids. Despite the improved recent advances in reptilian medicine, the understanding of hepatic metabolism & hepatic disease in general remains in its infancy.
And I really don't thing anyone was "poking fun" at you. This is a discussion forum, and we're having a discussion. Try not to take anything too personally.
I read that leos are immune to stings of certain scorpion species I wonder if that's true??
