Not only my snake loves mice...

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I don't have a picture of it. But I was getting ready to feed my BP, my friend was holding my snake in one hand and the mouse in the other by the tail. My mutant Alien Beast dog jumped up and engulfed the mouse in her mouth, my friend hit her on the head and she dropped the mouse. We then spent the next 10 minutes looking for the mouse... :rage::rolleye2::weirdface: So dogs like mice too.

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Originally Posted by J.Bissell

my friend was holding my snake in one hand and the mouse in the other by the tail.

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Not cool. Quit showing off in front of your friend. :colbert:

Will stop there. otherwise it will get very ugly, very quick.

Cute kittie :) My cat is a great mouser when it comes to native mice making homes in the house. But he is afraid of the rats that I feed my snakes. He will not even go enar them in the laundry room where I breed them! If I have one in a holding container for snake-feeding, Inky (cat) runs away.. little weirdo.

Just make sure to pre-scent before letting Sylvester to try and eat. Also, make sure to wait 2 days after feeding before handling again. :)

Our cat goes nuts when we pre-scent the tanks on feeding day. He just doesn't know what to do with himself.

i put 2 tanks on the ground for our manx cat. she'll go crazy doing summersalts and trying to swat the mice. i gave her an adult mouse one day and she wouldnt kill it but just played with it. didnt notice any blood so i threw him back in the tank and fed him to the snake the next day :D

DSGB- My last cat was the same way! My new one hasn't figured out how to get up on the shelf to get at the mouse yet though! I hope it's a long time before she can jump that high!

On a side note, just because a mouse is destined to be snake food, that doesn't make it okay to let your other pets play with them. And definitely not a good idea to hold it in one hand and the snake in the other.

Just to put things straight... I'm sorry if I didn't elaborate enough on the dog try's to eat mouse incident.

- It was not intentional.

- It was a very young BP, so rather small. Not able to reach the mouse at all.

- My dog took it upon herself to rid my friend of the mouse.

- I am not cruel, I wouldn't let my dog toy with a mouse, even if it was destine to be food.

I'm typically not this defensive, but it would be nice if you would get clarification before leaving remarks like that.

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Originally Posted by J.Bissell

Just to put things straight... I'm sorry if I didn't elaborate enough on the dog try's to eat mouse incident.

- It was not intentional.

- It was a very young BP, so rather small. Not able to reach the mouse at all.

- My dog took it upon herself to rid my friend of the mouse.

- I am not cruel, I wouldn't let my dog toy with a mouse, even if it was destine to be food.

I'm typically not this defensive, but it would be nice if you would get clarification before leaving remarks like that.

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If you don't want people jumping on you, then try to make your posts more clear.
It isnt other peoples fault that you said something wrong.


You still do not hold even a young bp (doesnt make a difference if small or large) while you feed it.

My cats just stare at our mice if we have any in the house for feeding day. With rats, they treat them like equals. Not sure if any of you saw my post about the escapee rat we had that went missing. Turns out it was in our bedroom, sharing a water bowl with our cat! They were drinking side-by-side from the same water dish and the cat didn't even seem to notice this newcomer. Wierd little cat.

(To the one with the dog attempting to eat the mouse....my only question is this....why did you hit the dog on the head? I don't know about you but I never ever hit my animals. Now, I was not there and I don't know what you mean by hit. I could have been a tap, or it could have been an actual HIT, but using the word hit seems like you were a bit harsh towards the dog.)

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Originally Posted by J.Bissell

I'm typically not this defensive, but it would be nice if you would get clarification before leaving remarks like that.

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I'm pretty sure the comment you are getting defensive about wasn't even aimed at you. So maybe you should get clarification before getting defensive. If you'd read the whole thread and read Melanie's (python princess) post carefully, you'd see that a different poster was talking about letting their cat play with a mouse. True, Melanie sort of lumped it in the same sentence as the comment about holding the mouse in one hand and the snake in the other, but I think that was just because she was lightly touching on a few things she didn't think were good ideas. If she'd really wanted to bash on anyone, she probably have devoted more time to it. But the whole point was that wasn't her point, so no need for anyone to get so defensive.

Now, the comments by more than one person about not holding a snake while feeding it, and/or holding it in one hand while holding the mouse in the other, are aimed at you. And I have to agree with the people that say this isn't a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

(To the one with the dog attempting to eat the mouse....my only question is this....why did you hit the dog on the head? I don't know about you but I never ever hit my animals. Now, I was not there and I don't know what you mean by hit. I could have been a tap, or it could have been an actual HIT, but using the word hit seems like you were a bit harsh towards the dog.)

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To be fair, J. Bissell's post clearly states that it was the friend, not J. Bissell, who hit the dog.

It wasn't being fed. I was getting a cage ready for it to be fed. :weirdface In retrospect it wasn't a good idea, it's been a while, and it was my first snake. <insert noob smiley here>

Also, my dog had the mouse in its mouth. He hit it on the head to get her to spit it out, which she did. It was actually more of a hard tap. This wasn't a beating. I would have done it if I had been closer. That's how the animal world works. Ever seen Dog Whisperer?

Wow...

No I have not seem dog whisperer. Thank you for clearing up the way in which the dog was corrected.