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Old 04-19-17, 01:19 PM   #1
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Re: Seriously gross. What's causing this? (Graphic picture)

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I googled various answers and they said various things about water temperature. I didn't really put much thought into it- I just put hot water from the faucet in a cup with them. It's just never happened to me before, not even with the fuzzies and the adult mice did it too.
Try a microwave next time

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I also use hot water, never had this happen. Closest thing to it was me forgetting a rat in water...come back a few hours later and picked it up and my finger went through its stomach. Could they possibly have been thawed and refrozen?
My guess is the supplier either had someone return them thawed or accidentally thawed them and then refroze them. I think it's a one off incident.


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I threw out all the ones that exploded and fed off the good ones. This is really the only one of two local suppliers that I have (the other being PetSmart) and it's been hit or miss. They often run out of certain sizes so when I get the mice, I've been handed bags with bloody mice covered with feces before. It's just frustrating really.
Yeah I can understand the frustration. Finding a good supplier is really tough! I would talk to the supplier of these ones and see if they are willing to comp part of the order or give you a new one for free. I think it's a one off event.
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Re: Seriously gross. What's causing this? (Graphic picture)

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Try a microwave next time
When I was brand new to keeping snakes I did this once. Just once.

It looked like a particularly gruesome death scene from the "Alien" movie franchise had taken place inside the microwave. *That* was fun to clean up. Not.

I agree that something's up with those rodents. I always thaw them by dropping them in hot tap water and have never seen that happen.
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Re: Seriously gross. What's causing this? (Graphic picture)

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When I was brand new to keeping snakes I did this once. Just once.

It looked like a particularly gruesome death scene from the "Alien" movie franchise had taken place inside the microwave. *That* was fun to clean up. Not.

I agree that something's up with those rodents. I always thaw them by dropping them in hot tap water and have never seen that happen.

Yeah I did the microwave thing once too BUT I was a young kid like age 12 and my mom made me put the mouse into a microwaveable container. I only had to throw that out instead of clean the whole thing.
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