The only smell worse than a dead rat...

is a dead rat that explodes :puke2: :puke:


:disbelief :bleh:

I hate f/t. I hope to find a live source soon....

eeeew!!!! glad i feed live!

i've never smelled an exploded rat before, but it can't be worse than an industrial chicken coop!!! they stink for a mile!

or a f/t rat that your snake decides not to eat but shoves over the heat to bake and puts her hide on top of it so that you don't see it when you check the next morning to make sure it's gone i don't see it (she's one of those that i leave it and she eats it when i turn out the lights). let that sit for a good 48 hours or so and you have a good time!

Just feed live so it works how it actually does in the wild

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Originally Posted by Snikt228

Just feed live so it works how it actually does in the wild

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I would rather feed live, but pet stores near me charge way too much and i'm not really in a position to breed my own at the moment. f/t is my best option right now.

I used to feed live. Now feed frozen thawed. I hated feeding live. I'd just rather avoid any chance of a bite.

Sounds like you warmed it up too fast. What's been your dethawing method?

no i do a slow thaw at room temp, then use a heat pad to go a little warmer. I think i grabbed it wrong with the hemostats.

No, trust me, regurge rat from a sav monitor is much much worse. Our power went out one time at night in the winter and I didn't notice. I had just fed the sav earlier in the day. The smell woke me up, omg it was awful!

I guess that's better than it exploding in its death squeeze or when he bits it.

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

no i do a slow thaw at room temp, then use a heat pad to go a little warmer. I think i grabbed it wrong with the hemostats.

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had that happen too. :mad:

Ewwwww!!! What was the scenario? Did the feeding still go well?

I know I just fed my blood live. I was out of co2 for my little gas chamber. He squeezed that thing so good it bled from the eyes and mouth.

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had that happen too. :mad:

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Try bloated, dead, drown rats in a rack system tub... This was only one drawer from a clogged spicket in the watering system and I wanted to vomit. I didn't even get near them--Kara was the one doing the cleaning of the bucket. Kara came home from vacation to an ENTIRE RACK of dead, bloated, drown mice...I don't know how she could STAND it. *shudder*

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Ewwwww!!! What was the scenario? Did the feeding still go well?

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well...all but the guts went down. i had to scoop those up and throw them away ..yum

This is one of those times that I'm glad this isn't a scratch and sniff forum.... :puke2:

Or even better a rat that gets regurged and is left over night in a room with 50% RH and is 85 degrees f. LOL talk above ruin your breakfast.

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or a f/t rat that your snake decides not to eat but shoves over the heat to bake and puts her hide on top of it so that you don't see it when you check the next morning to make sure it's gone i don't see it (she's one of those that i leave it and she eats it when i turn out the lights). let that sit for a good 48 hours or so and you have a good time!

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Houdini has done the same thing to me once. I couldn't figure out why he was sleeping on top of his hide on the warm side. Then I thought he must have pooped in his hide. He will sit up their if their feces/urine in or near his warm hide. Apparently he didn't like the smell either. Thank God I have a strong stomach. :puke:

Nasty! A brood of dead/half eaten baby mice is lasty too.. found that in my tack box out in the barn (wild mice.) Shudder....
Liquid human manure spread on a field on a humid night beats any smell in nastiness though! The septic-tank cleaner trucks get to spreadin' their love... YUCK!