Gross Gross Gross!

I learned an important lesson yesterday: Do not thaw your mouse with boiling water, just warm water.
I put the mouse in and ran to the grocery store (to buy stuff to make poutine, O Canada!) and when I got back I tossed the snake and mouse into the feed box.

Well, when you use boiling hot water, let's just say the mouse becomes fall off the bone delicious...
He struck the mouse's leg and it came off. So there's a mouse there missing a quarter of his body and a VERY confused snake swallowing a leg. After that he was so confused that he wouldn't eat the mouse so I had to throw it away..

D: Oh my god it was DISGUSTING. I can handle mice and I can handle the smell of thawed pinky rabbits but when that happened... I just about lost it.

Gross feeding stories/mouse thawing tips are more than welcome! :D
Or poutine! YUM!

HAHAHAHAHAAAA!


plus you boiled all the vitamins out of the poor thing :D

I shoulda known better than to open this one while I was eating breakfast! :puke:


:P Lesson well learned...don't wanna cook the mouse...just make it not-frozen. :P

lol i guess that's one of the lovely perks of feeding f/t...figuring out what works huh?

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Originally Posted by mousch

I learned an important lesson yesterday: Do not thaw your mouse with boiling water, just warm water.
I put the mouse in and ran to the grocery store (to buy stuff to make poutine, O Canada!) and when I got back I tossed the snake and mouse into the feed box.

Well, when you use boiling hot water, let's just say the mouse becomes fall off the bone delicious...
He struck the mouse's leg and it came off. So there's a mouse there missing a quarter of his body and a VERY confused snake swallowing a leg. After that he was so confused that he wouldn't eat the mouse so I had to throw it away..

D: Oh my god it was DISGUSTING. I can handle mice and I can handle the smell of thawed pinky rabbits but when that happened... I just about lost it.

Gross feeding stories/mouse thawing tips are more than welcome! :D
Or poutine! YUM!

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Ummm i just set them out and they thaw out after a few hours lol. Hey try some poutine with a little mouse remains dip :hungry: :hungry: :rofl: :rofl: . I have no idea what poutine is by the way lmao!

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

lol i guess that's one of the lovely perks of feeding f/t...figuring out what works huh?

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whats f/t mean?

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Originally Posted by joepythons

Ummm i just set them out and they thaw out after a few hours lol. Hey try some poutine with a little mouse remains dip :hungry: :hungry: :rofl: :rofl: . I have no idea what poutine is by the way lmao!

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Poutine: The great Canadian HEART ATTACK! It's crispy fries, poutine sauce (or chicken gravy - light gravy!) and cheese curds. Sooo delicious <3
Way more delicious than that mouse anyway!! :P

F/T means Frozen/Thawed - as opposed to cooked, which is what my mouse was!

here check this out.
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=41225

Been there :puke2: , even with warm water they can still do that from time to time, in my opinion letting the prey thaw slowly at room temp and then warming it up with a hair dryer work the best.

I thawed out a rat a little to good a few weeks ago... I picked it up by it's tail out of the hot hot water.... and it's tail's skin slid right off the bone. So I'm standing there with the tail skin of the rat in the hand and a rat with it's tail bone exposed paying on the floor. I about lost my lunch.

Other then that, I've had my corn snake "pop" some f/t rat fuzzies that send blood and guts squirting all over the place and himself. Nothing like having to wash off a snake after they eat and that happens. So gross!