Because of the snakes size.
Your snake might be ill because it might of ate a too big a meal for him and he cant digest it
Yes, but it depends on the size of the snake
It does not take a fricken year to digest a rat. My 7 foot boa digests and poops out a jumbo rat in less than a week.
In most cases, a predator such as a snake will instinctively know what it can and cannot swallow and/or digest. There have been times where a snake has attempted to swallow and digest it's prey and have it turn out a bit too large.
no it cant digest its own food
No... There is a very high likelihood the snake will regurgitate its meal. This is not only wasteful (as the food cannot be reused) - but may also be detrimental to the snake (it's similar to a human vomiting !). Snakes should be left alone for at least a week after feeding - to allow them to digest their meal.
Yes. A snake can digest bone because the acid in their stomach is stronger than a humans acid therefore letting the snake decompose harder and rougher objects.
Isn't it interesting to watch a snake digest a mouse? When I read, I do not just scan the pages. I digest what I am reading.
meat. things that will poison them, or things that their stomach won't be able to digest. pretty much the same as us.
To swallow - a couple of minutes. To digest - about a week. Depends on how big the mouse is compared to the snake. A small meal could be swallowed in under a minute and take a day to digest. Average-sized meals can take 10-30 minutes to swallow and take 3-7 days to digest. A very large meal could even take a few hours to swallow and take several weeks to digest.
Pepsin helps digest proteins in the human body.
The snake swallowed the pig whole and it took a very long time to digest.