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Feeding Problem

bataco

bataco

Daniel
Where I live, I can't get jumbo sized mice for a ig snake, giving them two mice would be fine? thx =)
 
Yes, that's probably even healthier. Watch your snake's weight. You may even want to alternate one adult mouse one week, two the next. Do you know about slitting the backs of the mice to make them easier to digest?
 
yeah they told me that hehe but... I in my city it's difficult to find dead mice... I will have to buy them live.... I think there won't be a problem or it will? :confused:
 
For the safety of your snake, you should learn how to humanely kill the mice. Cervical dislocation is probably the easiest/quickest way. Do a search for that. You could also buy a batch of mice and kill and then freeze them, saving trips to the petstore _and_ eliminating parasites in the mice by freezing. Of the four snakes I had tested for worms, all four had them. It's from being fed live at some point in their lives.
 
Some people have successfully fed their snakes live mice and never had a problem. BUT... and it's a big 'but', live mice generally want to keep living and will fight back if they can. At some point, your snake might end up on the losing end of a skirmish. Then you'd have to deal with a wounded snake, one who might not want to eat mice after that at all. Is it worth the risk? It isn't to me. I just used cervical dislocation on 10 mice yesterday and it went well. You have to just keep it in mind that these mice are food, and that what you're doing will cause it the least discomfort as possible, and eliminates several risk elements.
 
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