fed live.... :(

If you touch the mouse. WASH YOUR HANDS. ahem. Personal experience, you don't wash your hands, you get bit. But if the mouse is just in the same room, shouldn't be a problem.

*you'll get bit by the snake that is.

My last post had the potential to be confusing.. lol.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

If you touch the mouse. WASH YOUR HANDS. ahem. Personal experience, you don't wash your hands, you get bit. But if the mouse is just in the same room, shouldn't be a problem.

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good good good. he is on the opposite side of the room as Apollo, and not that close to Pandora... my parents won't let me keep him anywhere else bcuz he stinks already and i just got him. cruddy friend Staci... :roll:

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Originally Posted by alexrls

cute mouse pic but he left you a little present on your hand

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yeah i noticed that too. :) i dont understand that about mice/hampsters. how can one animal have to go the bathroom SO much? i mean, every time i hold them they take a dump or pee all over my hand. i mean seriously.. once is enough!

i have that experience with frogs too. i love frogs and i always catch one and hold it if i see one hopping around. but it never fails, i always get peed on about 100 times. ugh.

i got what you meant, Shelby

Yeah.. though my rats have never pooped on me, they do pee. I hardly ever hold the mice, but I know they use us as toilets without a second thought.

My toad always pees on me.. lol I know what you're talking about. But for a toad, it's a defence mechanism, so they have an excuse.

I fed live (rather the snakes kill their food than me) until I thought about what a rat (not there yet) could do to my snakes. My husband prekills for his monitors and since he's not crazy about snakes, insists I do any prekilling for them. After telling him how mean he was, he showed me a not-so-violent way. I'll try to explain...

holding the mouse by the tail (not the very tip!!!) with your dominate hand (I'm a righty), place it on a flat surface and with your other hand hold it down with a hammer, stick, etc. behind it's head, pressing fimly with the hammer. Now quickly jerk its tail straight back. This breaks its neck. It's quick and (I gotta believe) relatively painless for the mouse, and no blood!

I must warn you, if you pull on the tip of its tail, the skin might pull off... and that is not pleasent at all.

:? Ah yes...then there is yours truly, the EyeLashViper. I enjoy feeding live although I must admit that for safetys sake I am endeavouring to get my herps onto F/T or pre-killed - but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about watching live rodents get taken down by my snakes. I figure, what is the sense of getting all emotional over what is pretty much just nature in the raw?? As I have said before, nature is cruel - look at the way lions pursue and kill their prey - they actually start eating while their prey is still alive and kicking. I kind of think if someone has problems with watching their snake eat live prey that they might be in the wrong hobby.

:roll: EyeLashViper

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Originally Posted by EyeLashViper

I kind of think if someone has problems with watching their snake eat live prey that they might be in the wrong hobby.

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not too much the wrong hobby... it's more of a i-like-animals-and-i've-never-seen-one-get-killed type of thing. i DO like animals, even rodents, and i cry even when birds fly into my windshield when im driving *cough*. i'm perfectly capable of actually feeding live if i wanted to continue it, and i'm sure i could get used to finding some way to kill the mouse.

so.... don't say i might be in the wrong hobby. cuz i'm not. thanks :)

and.... this was my first time feeding live. you can't expect me, a 17 yr old girl who thinks mice are "so adorable and fuzzy," to be like "hey, go apollo, snap its neck right in front of me!!" it takes getting used to.

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Originally Posted by Super_Smash

i cry even when birds fly into my windshield when im driving

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Wow. Can't say that's ever happened. lol

I still say, if you keep that mouse for any period of time, you'll most likely notice the cuteness miraculously going away.

It's not really hard for me to kill mice, because I have a personal hatred of them! When you live out in the sticks, mice will get into your hosue through any hole and they begin setting up shop. They make houses in the insides of your house's walls, and you can hear them scratching away all night right next to your bed. And banging on the wall does NOT shut them up; neither (I found out) does cussing and swearing about mice; it just gets your boyfriend aggrevated at one AM. :)
Luckily our cat takes care of most of the mice; this year we have not had any real annoyances, although a few months ago I stepped on a dead one when I got out of bed (double YUK.) And have you ever smelled a dead one when it's stuck in the inner walls of your house? You cannot get to the corpse in order to throw it in the trash, and you pretty much have to get used to the smell (which smells ten times worse than the most rancid smell you can imagine!)
((EDIT: please do not get the impression that I live in a disgusting, reeking house. This event only actually happened once, and it was out in the back mudroom so the house didn't really smell. But still...))

All that said, I actually breed mice! But I only have one mama mouse with her 7 weanlings, and I keep them in a relatively huge rubbermaid and clean it out weekly, so it never really smells that bad. And it's out in the back hall. But I just loathe mice. I don't take any joy in killing them, but a snake's gotta eat. :)

Yea, don't say im in the wrong hobby. I'm a kid and I hate watching things die, and your probably a grown man that likes to watch something die for some odd reason.