How long did it take you?

Okay this is so totally a strange question but... (okay that was the CA girl in me talking)

For those of you feeding f/t how long did it take you to get over the heebee geebees of opening your freezer and seeing a HUGE package of rats?

It's been a week and my stomach still does a flip flop everytime I open the freezer. Does it get any easier? Should I them it in a big eggo box or something?

Suggestions, comments, and teasing should now commence. LOL

It never bothered me. My mom occasionally has to tell me to get the rat bags off of the frozen pizza.

ha ha, it never bothered me to tell you the truth. in fact, i like it. i love opening the freezer to see that 1/3 of it or more is filled with bags of various sized rats. it reminds me of my snakies and how much i love them. aaaaw, oooooh, mushy gooey luv stuff! :P

you'll get used to it. you could always just hide them in the back or something for now. :)

LOL too funny Dawn! Actually when the new freezer arrives and we get our first frozen rat order in I'm packing each size in their own non-see through plastic bins. I sure as heck do not want to look in the freezer and see the ratsicles in there.

One note though, frozen prey in the freezer cuts down significantly on the loss of everything edible in the freezer after an all night Xbox playing, food snarfing, they must have a hollow leg to eat THAT much teenage boys!


~~Jo~~

it keeps your grocery bill down in the frozen foods department too. for the first month or so after i get an order of rats whenever my husband and i go to the store he will pick up a frozen pizza or something and i'm just like--no honey, that won't fit. :P

How about a small freezer on the side :P

I just got a nice used small freezer (coming this week) but it's still either 5 or 7 cubic feet. I'm not buying that much frozen stuff LOL and I'm too cheap to spend electricity cooling empty air so I'll pop a few human food thingies in their too....well seperated of course.


~~Jo~~

It's never bothered me. It's bothered everybody else who's had to dig in the freezer though. (Other than my one local herper friend :P ) I can't afford to buy a small freezer just for the snake food right now, or I would. I'm running out of freezer space for my food.

The frozen rodents don't bother me at all, but I did forgot to mention the lovely ratsicles to my mom when she came to visit. :rolleyes: She was less than pleased. :oops: She's ok with the snakes and all but the food supply doesn't jive with her.

I don't get queasy but I do feel sorta bad for the little pinkies hanging out in the back of the freezer. Short lived guilt as I love my little ones! The husband (who never goes searching for food even if it's under his nose) went rumaging one day and I got a "what is this???" I calmly replied, "Oh, just some pinky mice for the snakes dear." I got a roll of the eyes and a shrug as he tossed them back to their little corner. Poor guy puts up with a lot for a guy who is not to fond of snakes!