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freetv-5

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Well my big girl Fang has been a fussy eater lately so I thought I would try the live feed thing.
Well fang has always been a suck, loves to be handled, fights to be put back, likes to go nose to nose with the kitty. But never knew how much of a "baby" she truly was until now, gave her the live mouse and came back a bit later to find her and the mouse had become best of buddies. Here's Fang in a round curl with the mouse "Supper" sleeping in the center.
Guess she just can't figure it out? Well this was the third time I tried to feed "Supper" to her so I guess "Supper" gets a mate and off to being pinkie factory.
I am thinking of naming her mate "Lunch"....any other ideas?
 
I was around and it was like one hour or so and kept an eye open. Actually wanted to see her attack and eat but she just curled up and her and mouse had a sleep.
No I wouldn't leave a live to have a chance on "Fang"!!!
 
starsevol said:
You left a live adult mouse alone with your snake???

REALLY stupid careless move.....
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Yeah, you need to be constantly monitering the feeding when feeding live. An adult mouse can definetley kill a corn. IDK why it didn't, but maybe that snake is just lucky.
 
freetv-5 said:
I was around and it was like one hour or so and kept an eye open. Actually wanted to see her attack and eat but she just curled up and her and mouse had a sleep.
No I wouldn't leave a live to have a chance on "Fang"!!!
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Well then ignore my above post. You should've taken a picture. It would have been cute.
 
If the next shot had been the snake with it's eye bitten out, that would not qualify as 'cute' at all. I had a trio of gerbils from the same litter in a big tank with burrowing substrate when my boys were young. One evening they started a 3-way fight without warning and by the time I could get the lid off and seperate them with gloves on all 3 were too damaged to save. Literally 20 seconds or so from start to finish. Even though they were badly injured they wee biting me through the gloves. So I'd hate to think what an adult rodent could do to a snake in a feeding tub before it could be removed. Having seen pictures of snakes scarred up from live feeding that goes wrong, it's obvious the snake dosn't even defend itself in that situation.
 
Um, yeah.....
watching a snake attack and kill a live animal that is fighting for its life is "cute"....
one-eyed scarred victims of a mouse trying to defend itself are "cute" too.....

Neither of you get any respect from me....(Janine gets oodles though :) )
 
OK
I guess I should have been right there the whole time! I live in a very very small apartment and was watching all the time for the first part, will never let my eyes leave again!!! After a bit they really seemed to have no interest in each other and I guess I made a big mistake and am very lucky! I just found it to be funny for them to buddy up as they did.
 
diamondlil said:
If the next shot had been the snake with it's eye bitten out, that would not qualify as 'cute' at all.
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I ment cute like "Oh, look at that snake cuddle with the mouse!" cute. I definteley agree that mice can do some bad damage to a snake.
 
patm1313 said:
I ment cute like "Oh, look at that snake cuddle with the mouse!" cute. I definteley agree that mice can do some bad damage to a snake.
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free-tv, even if you constantly watch a mouse can injure a snake before you can stop it. If that mouse is afraid, it WILL fight to live, just like any other animal. I find it sad and creepy that you wanted to see her attack, as though one animal killing another is nothing more than a spectacle for you to get some sick thrill.

And Pat, after I read your responce over again, I got your meaning. If leaving a mouse with a snake wasn't so damn stupid, it might have made a good LOLsnake...
 
Yeah,
You are all right! I meant watching as it would be as interesting as watching a snake in the wild feed. Very insensitive on my part, probable would have felt different had I witnessed it! I will not try live feed again! Was just trying to get my Girl to eat as she has become very fussy. I will never try this again as I would really hate for her to be attacked.
Really sorry for even making this post!!!!
 
freetv-5 said:
Yeah,
You are all right! I meant watching as it would be as interesting as watching a snake in the wild feed. Very insensitive on my part, probable would have felt different had I witnessed it! I will not try live feed again! Was just trying to get my Girl to eat as she has become very fussy. I will never try this again as I would really hate for her to be attacked.
Really sorry for even making this post!!!!
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No reason to be sorry. It's a decent question...
 
starsevol said:
And Pat, after I read your responce over again, I got your meaning. If leaving a mouse with a snake wasn't so damn stupid, it might have made a good LOLsnake...
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LOLsnakes? They have them? That would be amazing! But thank you for understanding my meaning, I really would hate for anyone's snake to be harmed just for a photo :uhoh:....
 
freetv-5 said:
Yeah,
You are all right! I meant watching as it would be as interesting as watching a snake in the wild feed.
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I think that's a legitimate curiosity. Although it would be simple to find a You Tube video of a snake eating live.

I was mountain biking one day, and came upon a yellow rat eating a chipmunk, smack in the middle of the trail. I used a stick to edge it into the grass so it wouldn't get run over, and stayed for quite a while watching him swallow the chipmunk. It was a very big prey item for him. The chipmunk was dead. The process took so long I finally left.
 
it's good you're not going to feed live anymore, I've seen some snakes in sad shape because of it (older snakes of course, pinks don't do much)

I've never understood the argument of "I'm right there watching". Because I've held rats/mice before, and you can't get any closer to "right there" than actually holding the animal and if I wasn't fast enough to stop it bitting me there how could anyone hope to be fast enough to save their snake from getting bit?

I'm not a fan of the furry pets, I prefer not to deal with them at all : p
 
Anyone ever read Life of Pi? The author brings up this situation, odd instances where predator prey animals have become friends. The idea of a friendly understanding between co -habbed predator pray animals seems a bit to fanciful to me though.
 
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