What to do with uneaten thawed rodents?

I do not have a snake yet, but I’ve been thinking, can you do anything with thawed rodents if your snake doesn’t eat it besides throw it away?

Taxidermy? Give it to the cat? Have a unique barbecue and invite the neighbors without telling them what kind of meat it is?


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Many people will refreeze one time. If it's refused a second time it gets tossed.

I just toss my refusals into the yard and some neighborhood animal gets a treat. It's always gone by morning.

But, if you get more snakes one of them will always eat it, hehehehehe.

I don't re-freeze...they get so gross (texture suffers greatly) & have more bacterial growth (ie. more likely to make your snake barf). Refused rodents are
very rare here, fortunately. (-I don't keep BPs, lol.) But when I lived in the desert, I did keep BPs along with many other snakes, & any refused or excess
rodents got tossed over my fence & into the surrounding fields at night, where coyotes were tickled to receive them. It's really best not to re-offer rodents
to other snakes...especially if any snakes are newly arrived, as this practice is apt to share mites or diseases with other snakes. If you're going to re-offer
thawed rodents, it's best to only do this between long-term snakes that are known to be healthy, but it's still never risk-free.
By now, anyone that knows me (& what's in my freezer) also knows better than to force me to cook for a pot-luck. :rofl:

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Originally Posted by TechnoCheese

Have a unique barbecue and invite the neighbors without telling them what kind of meat it is?

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Almost shot coffee out of my nose right there. I usually just pitch them. My first choice was to toss them out back for the crows, but that wasn't popular with the rest of the house.

I just toss them in with my ferrets. Perks of having a few other carnivores in the house.

When I had just 1 or 2 snakes I would refreeze refused feeders once and I never had any problems. I don't have that issue anymore. With (11) snakes there's always a hungry critter waiting for a meal.

It becomes wildlife food (I live on 4 acres in the country so it's an advantage)

I would totally feed the buzzards here, or crows too. Just have to find a woods or field...neighbors in town won't likely appreciate. :rolleyes:

I also toss them. There's a definite change in appearance even from them being left in the cage overnight. Now, if I had a refusal and wasn't going to leave it in the cage, I would just give to another snake.

One of my bigger BPs is a slithering trash can. He's always happy to take an extra in the rare case one of the others doesn't eat.

Otherwise, yeah, I'd probably just toss it out for a local scavenger.

- Charles Eye