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i have often wondered about this one. I stick to the good owners guide & use an ice cream lid for my aspen bedded snakes, but it absolutelty befuzzles me why a snake thay can digest BONE cannot eat a bit of straw. Especially where thay snakes natural habitat includes such a danger.
Because when they swallow the bones, they are all wrapped up in a nice soft package until it gets to the stomach where the insane stomach acids get to work, also once swallowed, the snake wont move around much until its digested the food.
The bedding is nasty sharp sometimes and on the outside of the mouse, it could tear or pierce the snakes mouth or digestive tract on the way down.
For the same reason, its important to not feed a snake something too big or sharp... seen a photo on a forum recently of someones snake who was offered food that was too big and the snake ended up with an inch long tear about a cm behind its head, it was only the layer of skin with the scales on but it exposed all the muscle underneath. Through shear luck and care the snake healed with only a small scar but still... eeep!