What drugs are used in venomoid surgery?
A. The drugs used in venomoid surgeries are legally controlled. Amateur venomoiders are breaking the law by possessing them. All the drugs required to do a really professional and humane job of the surgery are expensive and difficult to obtain, so the amateurs are skimping and using only the bare minimum they need to make sure the snake stays still when they start cutting. Sometimes only the refrigerator or an ice bath is used to make a snake too cold to move, even though it can still feel pain. Dissociative drugs that can temporarily paralyze a snake, like Ketamine, can be bought fairly easily on the illicit “drug scene” because they are popular with human drug users. These kinds of drugs do not provide any pain relief. The snake will be unable to move but will still feel everything that is done to it. Other drugs like the gas inhalant described in this article are illegal to use at home but are not that difficult to obtain. They render the animal unconscious during the actual operati
