Snakes

[SHANKER]

Snakes devovour their prey as a whole but manage to digest them ! I want to know as
1) how the prey is prevented from causing bites in stomach?
2) how the non-poisonous snakes digest without the help of poison?

[wildwood]

I'm pretty sure all snakes only eat dead, or at least paralysed prey. The non-venomous snakes [pythons, carpet snakes and boas etc.] also have pre-digestive enzymes in the esophagus similar to that found in the venomous ones, which would soon disable any prey that may still have some live in it, if they went to devour them before the life was constricted out of it.
There are non-venomous snakes that will eat venomous snakes. The digestive juices in the stomach neutralises any toxin that is contained in venomous animals they eat.

[treaclefight]

saw gruesome documentary where 12ft python had eaten goat the wrong way round and the horns had killed the snake, i think the snakes are not too fussy but as wildwood says, they're prey has either been suffocated or poisoned by the time they are eating it