Parental Advice

I agree let your children see pics and videos of snakes feeding PK prey see how they react. If you would like I have some great pics from start to finish of my BP feeding I can post or send you.

i let my kids watch if they want to, they usually don't but every now and then they do. i explained the "food chain " to them and how everyone has to eat to survive. they even know where chicken,burgers,steak and hot dogs come from.



vaughn

Thanks ya'll, for all the great advice and offers of pictures :)

I think I'll go ahead and let him watch this time, and see how he does. I talked to him about it, and he understands what will happen. I'm definitely not letting him play with/see the mouse beforehand, though.

Ha, now for the really great part about all this!
My son came in the room I keep Elphie in at feeding time. I dropped in the mouse (Jamie, they were out of rat pups, I had to go with a mouse), and she just sat there watching it. This went on for about 3 minutes, and anyone with a little boy knows that's too dadgum long to wait for *anything*. So he got bored and left the room to go play. As soon as he walked out, Elphie ate her dinner like a good little girl. Guess she decided he didn't need to watch her! haha

All that worry for nothing.

Well at least he his willing to watch. This means that he is open to the idea. May be next time get im in the room after the strike and curl. Sometimes the biggest worries are over things that never happen. LOL

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

May be next time get im in the room after the strike and curl. Sometimes the biggest worries are over things that never happen. LOL

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That is so true, especially in parenting, I think! haha
That's an excellent suggestion, I will do that next week. He said he would like to see how a snake eats, so I may just search for the video that was posted here not long ago and show that to him.

I remember one time months ago when we brought home a jumbo live rat for the big BCI for dinner. Normally we don't let Mikey see these critters as they are meant for a snake's meal. Unforunately I set the rat box down and when I returned there was my son hunkered down saying "hi there big rat! welcome to our house! it's nice here for rats!"

I could have near died and had one of the few bad times feeding off a rat (heck it had been welcomed...I felt sort of guilty!). Lucky enough it looked a lot like our big stud rat so I don't think Mikey noticed it was suspiciously missing in action the next day.