I always always use water, with mice in a ziploack bag when I thaw mice for the snakes. Well today I was out of bags, and really needed to fed my snakes. So I put the mice under a hot light (which was too hot, I know now) and fed 5 of them their mice. When we went to fed Jose, my Mexican Black Kingsnake, we didn't notice what was going on right away but sure enough the mouse "exploded" By the time I noticed, he was already ripping off pieces and eating them like a dog. This snake would eat hot dogs if we let him, so that was no surprise but it sure was gross. We took him out and took the mouse away from him right after the photo....I won't post the others as this one gives you the idea:
If you look close at his mouth you can see him eating one of the pieces he pulled off. He swallowed that piece and tried to rip quite a few more off and swallow them as well. He also made a big deal when I treid to take it away and seemed quite content to eat this mouse piece by piece! Well i of course didn't let him.
<img src="http://members.rogers.com/mattl/Josegross.jpg">
Anyways so my personal lesson for today: Thaw mice out properly or don't thaw them at all!
Marisa
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