Aaaack!!! - Page 2

GyGbeetle · 03-08-17, 03:54 PM

I had a gaggle of geese chase me when I was a little girl. They are mean. Although I am not adverse to feeding them at the local lake now. But they will still chase people if they're in that kind of mood. That's a big "no thank you" from me!

I used to buy rats from my local pet store. There was one employee that didn't quite kill them properly, and when we would defrost them after freezing them, their insides would explode out. The smell would send me out of the room. One was accidentally decapitated because of the cut and the defrosting just did it in. We buy from Perfect Prey now and try not to overheat because that is a smell I will still have nightmares about.

saturnascends · 03-08-17, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by GyGbeetle

I had a gaggle of geese chase me when I was a little girl. They are mean. Although I am not adverse to feeding them at the local lake now. But they will still chase people if they're in that kind of mood. That's a big "no thank you" from me!

I used to buy rats from my local pet store. There was one employee that didn't quite kill them properly, and when we would defrost them after freezing them, their insides would explode out. The smell would send me out of the room. One was accidentally decapitated because of the cut and the defrosting just did it in. We buy from Perfect Prey now and try not to overheat because that is a smell I will still have nightmares about.

I have been thinking of mail ordering my frozen mice once I use up the 4 I have left from the shop...it's not a terribly far drive (maybe 30 minutes), but the mail thing seems more convenient. I will check out this site!

PS - I realize I dug up a pretty old thread - sorry

Kathryntheclean · 03-08-17, 04:05 PM

Just like Hitchcock's "The Birds".....

akane · 03-08-17, 05:12 PM

Everything is growing so fast or still on live that I can't really put together an order.

**Minkness** · 03-09-17, 10:02 AM

I get pinkies and fuzzies that burst all the time. It's bad, but the snakes love it, so whatever lol.

akane · 03-09-17, 03:25 PM

Then I get guts smeared all over the rocks and sometimes the snake. With bioactive and lots of natural substrate everything including the snake usually comes out clean within a day but extra reason not to pick the boa up after a meal.

**Andy_G** · 03-09-17, 03:29 PM

Thaw overnight (or 2 or 3 nights if the prey is big) in a container in the fridge and then pop the container in water as hot as it comes out of the taps for about 15 minutes before you feed in a sink or laundry tub. No guts or exploding food, no extra bacteria from room temp thawing (which can cause septicemia in extreme cases or if the snake has some kind of immune issue), and dry prey items!

Magdalen · 03-09-17, 05:30 PM

I thaw mine much like Andy described and never had an issue with smell. The first time I tried frozen 10 plus years ago I put the mouse in a cup of almost boiling water, that's when it smelled bad!

**EL Ziggy** · 03-10-17, 12:39 AM

I thaw my feeders in a ziploc bag submerged in WARM water for a few hours, depending on the prey size, then I superheat them with a hairdryer to about 100F and serve them up. No exploding rodents ever!

akane · 03-10-17, 02:49 AM

I only use the temp that comes out of the tap and my water heater sucks. We have it as high as it goes and you can barely use the cold at all to take a comfortable shower. It stops right about where it gets painful to leave your hand in without the cold on at all.

ThirteenRavens · 03-10-17, 09:48 PM

Ick...the only time I've had exploding rodents when I microwaved the water (sans mouse)...it just gets way way way too hot...I learned my lesson and switched to just super hot tap water which works much better lol.