i have to watch my snakes starve as punishment

He could walk, bike ride, etc to go and get it, but depending on the weather and if he feeds live, the rat/mice may die before he gets home perhaps?
But I agree with those who say to talk to your parents and ask for you, yourself to be punished rather than punish your animals and/ or re-home one.

If it ends up that you have to walk to the store and the weather would endanger the rats, you could take a small cooler along with you. It won't be a perfect solution, but it would help.

YOU put yourself in this position and the way out of it is to

A/Walk 6 miles
B/ Re-home your animal.

And please do not follow dangerous advice such as feeding wild rodents.

Hopefully this will be a lesson learned, if it was under my roof the animals would be gone.

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I'm going to try and walk the 6 miles. Hopefully I can at least once and I'll get live and breed them at home so I don't have to go back

Wasn't thinking of the re-homing thing...I do agree that feeding wild rodents has numerous risks, but in my eyes it is better than letting the animals starve. Then again, I could find younger rodents to raise in hopes to reduce the number of diseases they would carry.

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Originally Posted by Joshuaderetich

I'm going to try and walk the 6 miles. Hopefully I can at least once and I'll get live and breed them at home so I don't have to go back

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If you think your mom is mad about snakes in the house, she will really flip out when you start breeding mice. You will also need a lot of mice to support four snakes.

Assuming you are not a troll there are other options:
- Call the store and see if you can pay to have the mice delivered, there may be an employee who lives near you who can drop them off.
- If you're on Facebook look in the reptile forums for someone who breeds feeders and is closer than the store.
- Post an ad on Craiglist or Facebook and rehome the snakes.

If all else fails you can tell a school guidance counselor that your parents are willing to starve your pets to punish you, but be warned that this will likely get them in a lot of expensive legal trouble.

Also, put your location (city/state) in your profile, someone here may be close enough to throw a few feeders your way.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

If you think your mom is mad about snakes in the house, she will really flip out when you start breeding mice. You will also need a lot of mice to support four snakes.

Assuming you are not a troll there are other options:
- Call the store and see if you can pay to have the mice delivered, there may be an employee who lives near you who can drop them off.
- If you're on Facebook look in the reptile forums for someone who breeds feeders and is closer than the store.
- Post an ad on Craiglist or Facebook and rehome the snakes.

If all else fails you can tell a school guidance counselor that your parents are willing to starve your pets to punish you, but be warned that this will likely get them in a lot of expensive legal trouble.

Also, put your location (city/state) in your profile, someone here may be close enough to throw a few feeders your way.

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My ball pythons are feeding on hoppers and my corn snake is eating adult mice. The baby spotted is eating pinkies and that's my main worry since its small. Shouldn't that be easy to maintain? I have a pet rabbit so I'm guessing since they're both rodents I can use the same food.

Another option would be to get your snakes on frozen thawed rodents and stock up if you can, then you won't have to go to the store that often.

I think if you're perfectly capable of caring for all the animals on your own, your parents should get the stick out their butt, but whatever. I agree with earlier posts. Turn them in to another elder if they're willing to starve your animals long term. ESPECIALLY since you're capable of caring for them. Starving an animal is a crime that needs reported right away. Those creatures need food eventually and if they get to a point of poor health or even death, that's a crime. 6 miles is a long walk for a kid, especially since it's getting hot out.

6 miles once a week shouldnt be too bad and a good way to get in good cardio shape. Or It might be a good time to try converting your snakes to F/T. Whe you make a trip to the store you can make e trip worth your while and get enough to last several week. Before putting mice and rats in your freezer I would suggest talking to your parents about it first though, or hide them in the bottom in a bag of stuff nobody wants to cook. Plus they should be fine for a month or two. Though mine do that of their own free will of not eating that long as opposed to me. Though I did have a ball that was aweful bloated after a couple of large meals and decided to give her an extra week to pass it before stuffing her more.


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