Looking after refused dinner for a while :(

[TimmyG]

Ok my snake is going threw a mousi-phobia period and to egt him over it i tried a live hopper. No dice. I'm not really intrested in killing the mouse becuase I'd like to try again later. I'm just wondering if it would be ok to throw him a pice of carrot and a lil water dish till I try again. Im not at all intrested in investing any money into the mouse since hes snake food anyway. Thanks!

[pavlovk1025]

Enjoy the smell. I kept 2 leftover feeder mice once for about a week, they stunk to high heaven and eventually ended up with one killing the other. But sure, you can try a carrot and a water dish. I can tell you now that he'll dirty up the water dish. I hate mice.

[itskrystle]

I have done that before. One of our king snakes got out and we didn't know it until we went to feed him. We had an extra mouse and I didn't want to kill it, I thought maybe keeping the mouse in the snakes tank would lure the snake back into his home. I just threw a piece of a granola bar and a bit of a slice of cheese in there to keep the mouse happy. It worked for a few days but the mouse drowned himself in the snakes water bowl. It also didn't lure the snake back into his tank but we found him about a week later.

[iCandiBallPythons]

You kept the mouse in the bp enclosure the whole time?

[itskrystle]

You kept the mouse in the bp enclosure the whole time?

Is this question intended for me? If so, yes I kept the mouse in the snake's enclosure but it was not a ball python enclosure. The snake was not being housed in the same enclosure as it was running loose in my house. When the mouse drowned itself, after 3 days of being in the tank, the tank was cleaned and we found the missing snake about a week later and put him back in his enclosure. .