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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
This makes no sense. I understand that dead mice and live mice might have a slightly different scent but overall I doubt it's the smell at that point.
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I really dont want to seem lilke I am arguing. But it does make perfect sense, This is why you use the "braining" technique to increase the smell of the food item.... and when you freeze and thaw out a rodent in water alot of that smell is lost! Its the smell that triggers a snakes food response, When you dangle a rat in front of a snake, what is the first thing that happens, they flick their tongue to get the smell of the rodent to their jacobsons organ to tell them hey this is food. So if a snake voluntarily is eating live mice it associates that familiar smell with food and it eats. Scenting could very well not work in this situation but saying that it makes no sense to scent, makes no sense.
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