gross! But has this happened to anyone else?

It is a pain in the @#% to feed f/t... but it's more of a pain to put neosporin on a wounded snake, or else sit there with the live mouse hanging from your hemostats for umpteen hours while your snake decides if it's hungry or not and if it's willing to eat with you staring at it... x 10 in my case.

Is it a pain in the @#$ because it's the first time (transitioning) doing it and you just don't have a routine yet or because some are picky eaters? :confused:

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Originally Posted by dizzy

It is a pain in the @#% to feed f/t... but it's more of a pain to put neosporin on a wounded snake, or else sit there with the live mouse hanging from your hemostats for umpteen hours while your snake decides if it's hungry or not and if it's willing to eat with you staring at it... x 10 in my case.

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I don't find it all that hard to feed F/T. I thaw, then I feed. All my guys eat them off the floor of the tub, so I don't have to sit there and zombie dance with them.

well after my anaconda bit her self trying to catch a hopper, she wont eat anything that moves around, besides like fuzzies, so i was feeding her 3 fuzzies a week. well that got really tiring so i got a hopper and then i plucked it in the head to kill it, and i wiggled it in front of her and she ate it, so i was like hell, i might as well go FT now, cheaper, and less chance of parasites. so i fed her today, an adult mouse froze, well i unthawed it first and she ate it, after i moved her front of her body to the head, because she was trying to swallow it butt first.

Dizzy... you aren`t dangling live prey by their tails with hemostats are you?

Bruce

Not by the tails, by the scruff. But yes, after my little Valo got bit, I dangled live. Now I dangle f/t. Hopefully...

Why?

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Originally Posted by ARamos8

Is it a pain in the @#$ because it's the first time (transitioning) doing it and you just don't have a routine yet or because some are picky eaters? :confused:

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I was responding to this:

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Originally Posted by dsmalex97

this happened to me!!

I usually take an old won ton soup container and fill it with steaming hot water from the tap, and just plop the f/t in there and stick my hemostats in to keep the mouse submerged. When I started wiggiling the mouse the guts started to protrude from its abdomin. Yuck!! I dont know why that happened but grossed me out none the less. My snakes don't seem to want any part in f/t. I only have two, and both were on live for a while so they like to feel it breathing. Personally f/t seem to be A LOT of work when it comes to feeding time. I could be wrong. The above way with the ziplock container and then covering it seems to be effective. I just had a really hard time converting them, and just gave up lol.

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But forgot the quote.

I know this is a somewhat older thread but just had to share my same expierance that happened last night.

My BP eat FT great for me. She still requires the zombie dance but generally strikes right away as soon as it's dangled. I always thaw out two mice since some feedings she takes two and others she will only take one. If she doesn't take the second then I have a big 'ol corn that readily takes it. Anyway, when she constricted the first mouse, it's stomach kindda burst open. Really gross and that's never happened with any of my snakes. So she sits there constricted around this bloody, smelly mouse for a good 10 minutes and then decides she doesn't want it! I could tell she was hungry though. So I went ahead and offered the other mouse and she gobbled it up right away.

I always thought that the whole bloody smell would attract them to eat but I must have a very odd girl! I ended up just throwing that mouse out since my big corn is in major blue right now and I didn't want to bother him with the stinky little thing.

Yes, most recently while I was trying to give a mouse a chicken broth bath to entice my normal who hasn't eaten since last september. I'm running out of things to try! :D

Well I have had several incidents similar to that. In a nutshell I fed several FT med rats(several different occasions) and upon swallowing they decided to burst open. Of course the snakes were no longer interested in these fuzzy piles of goo anymore so I had to clean out the tanks. Took everything I had to keep from puking. Its was not very nice at all. I thinks its the hot water part because that's what I did on all the occasions that it happened. Now I use luke warm (75-80degrees tops) water and I just let them thaw in that then If I have any issue with them not taking I will dangle them in front of a heater for a few seconds.