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What do you do with 'leftovers'

What do you do with leftover food items?

  • Flush

    Votes: 12 19.0%

  • Put them in the themgarbage

    Votes: 22 34.9%

  • Refreeze them

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Give them to a different snake

    Votes: 18 28.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 10 15.9%
  • Total voters
    63
When i said i throw them over the fence i meant i throw the big rats that the BP's refuse into the naigbours garden. Their big dogs love em, shame the owners dont think so MWHAHAHAHA
 
My corns don't generally refuse, but if they do, there's usually another corn just waiting to have a second course, so... the pinks/small mice take care of themselves.
Rats, however, are a different story (for the BPs)... The rats get refrozen once (I also don't leave rats in with my BPs... they all get fed outside of their cages and I have to dangle it and trick them), and then if not eaten, they WOULD get tossed. However, I have never had a rat go more than one refreezing (probably because after it's been frozen once it gets immediately offered to my BP that will not turn down a meal).
 
Damn I hate no idea this was an old one either, but it is a subject I've never seen.

I always toss'm because my king is such a bad eatter that I leave him with his food over night. It smells so bad. And since Nagini is a good eatter and eats hers right away she's already back in her home and digesting for like 8 hrs by the time I give up on my king so I don't want to disturb her and chance her regurging to give her the extra mouse.
 
It certainly depends. If the mouse is fresh and I offer it to the snake and they don't want it, I'll try to feed it to someone else...if they are due a feeding. If it's gone overnight, it gets trashed. I never re-freeze or offer an old food item to another snake. If I've fed everyone and the last snake doesn't eat, the mouse goes in the trash.
 
Most of my refusals are gravid females. No hatchlings refused to eat this year...until the Amazons. I have one so far that refused. The rest ate like good children. I have a couple of snakes that don't eat as well when they are in blue. I've learned not to offer them food at that time.
 
I usually just throw the pinkies and fuzzies in a skillet for a couple min with some olive oil and eat them like shrimp. Good flavor.
 
Haha! No spot for E: All of the above!!

If it's a larger mouse and no other snake is in line for food, then if it's not eaten within one hour, back in the freezer it goes. I would only ever re-freeze once.

If it's a pink, and it's not eaten with an hour, it goes to the next hungry mouth, there are always more of those. If it's one I missed till the next morning, down the toilet.

If it's a fuz and gets refused, that often goes right in to the resident trash bin - Jabba the Argentine horned frog!

Point is, I think I've done everything on the poll list and more! :)

Rebecca
 
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