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Feel bad for my pet rats! advice please!

S

steviewonder54

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hey,
i have a young corn and still feeding pinkies... hope not too long till an upgrade! but i was wondering.. i have two pet rats, so id feel a lil bit bad to give Tim (my snake) a rat to eat, with Bernard and Muzzy (the rats) innocently watchin over.
can i feed large mice to Tim when he's an adult.... or will i just have to bite the bullet and move onto rats?!
Thanks
Steve
 
Not for nuthin' but I'm a rat lover too.
Right now I have 30 snakes (23 corns, 7 rosy boas) and all eat mice, not rats.
I really don't see a need to feed rats myself. It's not like I have a huge boa or python that needs "big food".
My oldest snake is a 14 year old amel male that currently weighed in at 1348 grams about a month ago and he's eaten mice all his life.
 
rats for corns is a personal choice.

even the munson plan lists adult mice for adult corns.

if i had not been feeding rats before being around a pet one, i may not have been able to feed rats either.
 
My big guy gets a rat, simply because the large mice around here didn't leave a lump, even right after feeding. I'm not a rat fan, so it doesn't bother me :)
 
Corn snakes can live exclusively on mice. Jumbo mice can get pretty large.

Another option if available in your area would be African soft furred rats. They grow much larger than mice but not as big as regular rats. They are also not nearly as tame as regular rats.
 
My corn's 7 yrs old, and about 5 ft long, she's lived on mice since she was hatched and I've never had a problem. She hasn't either, she seems perfectly content with the mice I've given her. Of course I've decided she must be a 'glutton phase' because she likes her food so much...
 
as a rat lover as well i couldnt feed one to my snakes and there really is no need to althoug i have in the past before having pet rats any way i find my adult digest better(no guts or other body parts in snakes poo) when i give him 2 mice istead of the rat.
 
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