She quickly confirmed her suspicions by feelings the snake’s body: there was an object stuck in the entrance to its stomach. The object trapped in her body was something the snake had swallowed and could not be broken down by the digestive system. The vet could only do one thing…

At this point, there was nothing else to do but carefully cut the snake and take the object out of it. Surgery always carries a risk, especially if that surgery has to be done in the middle of the rainforest. But there was no other option available.