One week we were asked to pet-sit my nephew’s pet corn snake. My sister in law brought the snake over in a tank and presented us with frozen food. My husband and children were most delighted and spent quite a large amount of time playing with the snake. About a week later we went to the tank and found that the snake had died. Oh no! Now what? Unfortunately, 2 weeks prior to my sister in law’s father had also passed away so this news would be devastating to my nephew. But why had the snake died? I sat quietly and connected with the now newly deceased snake to find out what the issue was. I soon got an image in my mind of a big lump in his tummy.
I was quite confused about this but at least we had a starting point. Under instructions, we met up with the snake breeder to purchase another one before my nephew got home. Not knowing too much about snakes we asked the breeder about why the snake may have died. It turns out that snakes need heating pads to digest food and if they don’t get warm enough the food can’t digest and they die of food poisoning.
It was now quite clear to me why the snake had been showing me his tummy. My sister in law had forgotten to bring the heating pad with the snake box to our house so even though it was summer there still wasn’t enough heat for food digestion in the snake tank.