Gross Gross Gross!

I learned an important lesson yesterday: Do not thaw your mouse with boiling water, just warm water.
I put the mouse in and ran to the grocery store (to buy stuff to make poutine, O Canada!) and when I got back I tossed the snake and mouse into the feed box.

Well, when you use boiling hot water, let's just say the mouse becomes fall off the bone delicious...
He struck the mouse's leg and it came off. So there's a mouse there missing a quarter of his body and a VERY confused snake swallowing a leg. After that he was so confused that he wouldn't eat the mouse so I had to throw it away..

D: Oh my god it was DISGUSTING. I can handle mice and I can handle the smell of thawed pinky rabbits but when that happened... I just about lost it.

Gross feeding stories/mouse thawing tips are more than welcome! :D
Or poutine! YUM!

HAHAHAHAHAAAA!


plus you boiled all the vitamins out of the poor thing :D

I shoulda known better than to open this one while I was eating breakfast! :puke:


:P Lesson well learned...don't wanna cook the mouse...just make it not-frozen. :P

lol i guess that's one of the lovely perks of feeding f/t...figuring out what works huh?

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Originally Posted by mousch

I learned an important lesson yesterday: Do not thaw your mouse with boiling water, just warm water.
I put the mouse in and ran to the grocery store (to buy stuff to make poutine, O Canada!) and when I got back I tossed the snake and mouse into the feed box.

Well, when you use boiling hot water, let's just say the mouse becomes fall off the bone delicious...
He struck the mouse's leg and it came off. So there's a mouse there missing a quarter of his body and a VERY confused snake swallowing a leg. After that he was so confused that he wouldn't eat the mouse so I had to throw it away..

D: Oh my god it was DISGUSTING. I can handle mice and I can handle the smell of thawed pinky rabbits but when that happened... I just about lost it.

Gross feeding stories/mouse thawing tips are more than welcome! :D
Or poutine! YUM!

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Ummm i just set them out and they thaw out after a few hours lol. Hey try some poutine with a little mouse remains dip :hungry: :hungry: :rofl: :rofl: . I have no idea what poutine is by the way lmao!

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

lol i guess that's one of the lovely perks of feeding f/t...figuring out what works huh?

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whats f/t mean?

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Originally Posted by joepythons

Ummm i just set them out and they thaw out after a few hours lol. Hey try some poutine with a little mouse remains dip :hungry: :hungry: :rofl: :rofl: . I have no idea what poutine is by the way lmao!

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Poutine: The great Canadian HEART ATTACK! It's crispy fries, poutine sauce (or chicken gravy - light gravy!) and cheese curds. Sooo delicious <3
Way more delicious than that mouse anyway!! :P

F/T means Frozen/Thawed - as opposed to cooked, which is what my mouse was!

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Been there :puke2: , even with warm water they can still do that from time to time, in my opinion letting the prey thaw slowly at room temp and then warming it up with a hair dryer work the best.

I thawed out a rat a little to good a few weeks ago... I picked it up by it's tail out of the hot hot water.... and it's tail's skin slid right off the bone. So I'm standing there with the tail skin of the rat in the hand and a rat with it's tail bone exposed paying on the floor. I about lost my lunch.

Other then that, I've had my corn snake "pop" some f/t rat fuzzies that send blood and guts squirting all over the place and himself. Nothing like having to wash off a snake after they eat and that happens. So gross!

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

I thawed out a rat a little to good a few weeks ago... I picked it up by it's tail out of the hot hot water.... and it's tail's skin slid right off the bone. So I'm standing there with the tail skin of the rat in the hand and a rat with it's tail bone exposed paying on the floor. I about lost my lunch.

Other then that, I've had my corn snake "pop" some f/t rat fuzzies that send blood and guts squirting all over the place and himself. Nothing like having to wash off a snake after they eat and that happens. So gross!

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Allison you have now added to the phrase "give me some skin" :partyon: :partyon: :rofl: :rofl:

I let mine sit for a few hours until it's thawed, then I set it on a heat pad (I have one on the top of my BP's tub) to warm up all the way through. Then I feed it to him :) No mouse poppage for me yet. We're on feeding #5.

That is just aweful!!! I would totally have lost my lunch!!! :puke2:

I will just stick with live! I stick it in there and once they have constricted it...I go on and let them eat quietly. ;)

I bought a frozen rat last night, but the size was not right (first time I bought from this supplier). My dog was THRILLED. THRIIIIIIIIIIILED. So, if you ever have a boiled rat issue, etc - remember, the dogs would be happy as can be for such a treat.. :carrot:

Ack! So you cooked it.. :) That must've meen one confused snake.. "OK, where DID the rest of my food go?" Hehe..!

I know feeding frozen food is alot safer for the snake, but thats just really freakin gross.....live food for me and Max all the way.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

whats f/t mean?

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frozen/thawed. meaning they're frozen, then thawed.

normally i just put mine in a ziploc bag and then thaw it under warm water for around 5 minutes.

I take it out of the freezer and set it on top of my snake's tub. He gets a sniff of it and comes out and gets his appetite ready. After a half hour or so I put it in hot water (but not so hot I cannot put my fingers in it for a few seconds) for about 10 minutes. Then I refresh the hot water a second time and soak another 10-15 minutes until it's totally warm and thawed.
then it's feeding time!

I like to get the mouse wet rather than put it in a baggie because I figure the extra moisture in his meal is good for him. plus it lubricates :P

All of the above gross stories is one of the very reasons I switched to live.
No muss, no fuss.

No matter how I warmed the rodents I use to give Ozzy, he strikes so darn hard they would always explode. Just to gross cleaning him and the cage of rodent guts.

I had my first rat bust a few weeks ago when I was feeding my boa. I left it out overnight to thaw and was using a blowdryer to warm it up and went to feed a few minutes later. It took me a sec to realize why it was not leaving the tray when I picked it up by the tail. An XXL rat is quite nasty!

That reminds me of a something that happened to me. I had an Argentine Horned Toad and had a mason jar full off water with a fish tank heater in that to keep the humidty up. I put a mouse in the tank, ran upstair for a couple minutes. When I returned the mouse gone and toad was back in its hide. Later that day I was in the room and the smell almost made me throw up. Some how the mouse ended up in the mason jar and was slow cooking. NASTY

Wow, is that ever nasty!

hahah you people are sick....