Now were cooking with rats!!!

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Originally Posted by Evenstar

Because nature didn't design them that way. Snakes aren't meant to eat something that has been cooked - partially, fully, or any other way other than raw and whole.

Remember that snakes aren't like dogs or cats. We haven't taken them and developed them in certain ways to do certain jobs and be domesticated. Snakes are exactly the same in captivity as they are in the wild - no matter what kind of crazy morph they are, physically they are still the same in the wild. They would never eat cooked food in the wild so nature made them specially designed to swallow and digest their prey whole and freshly raw. ;)

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If you could actually get a snake to eat something like a cooked mouse or something, I don't see why it would harm it. I mean they eat RAW Mice and Rats, Whole. They have amazing digestive systems and Immune systems. So eating something more sanitary than there usual meal, I wouldn't understand them being harmed.

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Originally Posted by dr del

Hi,

Believe it or not you got lucky.

Rats etc in the microwave have a tendency to explode - laminating their partially cooked internal organs all over the inside of the microwave.


dr del

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I second that. tried using my x girlfriends microwave to thaw a rat years ago and the resulting rat explosion was a really gross outcome. and needless to say she was not really happy about it. lol

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Originally Posted by dr del

Hi,

Believe it or not you got lucky.

Rats etc in the microwave have a tendency to explode - laminating their partially cooked internal organs all over the inside of the microwave.


dr del

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OMG sooo gross!!!!

A lot of cats can't digest cooked meat, don't ask me why. Two of my four got physically ill when I fed them cooked turkey-there was no seasoning/butter on it. That's somewhat common for sensitive cats. I'm assuming many animals are like that since they don't eat their food cooked. We don't eat our food raw, therefore when we do, we get ill even when there is nothing wrong with the meat. Our bodies just aren't used to it.

I don't know if there would be any problems digesting cooked meat but the process of cooking destroys a handful of vitamins and minerals in the meat as humans we are omnivorous, snakes are not they need to get 100% of the nutritional value from the meat they eat if you only fed cooked you would likely have to add supplements to complete the nutritional needs.

I know snakes are not cats but I don't think it is a big leap to assume that nutritional needs of carnivores are similar is it?

"The findings from a ten-year feeding study of cats conducted a little over
70 years ago by a doctor in California reveal that feeding cats raw food
had a dramatic and positive impact on their health and well-being when
compared to cats fed cooked meat."

http://www.blakkatz.com/sample.pdf

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Originally Posted by dr del

hi,

believe it or not you got lucky.

Rats etc in the microwave have a tendency to explode - laminating their partially cooked internal organs all over the inside of the microwave.


Dr del

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:o

Technically, cooked food is easier to digest and should pose no problem. A special on the Science Channel (How Cooking Made Us Human) was based all on it and how we evolved such intelligent brains. Never mind that, but they did take two snakes (I think they were burms), fed one some raw steak, and fed the other cooked hamburger, and by checking the amount of oxygen used (an indirect way to see how much energy is used), the python that ate the cooked meat used 24% less energy/oxygen while digesting.

Just thought I'd throw this out here.