Quote Originally Posted by Turningstar View Post
Blech....that so gross. I hope not, but Ill take it if it gets some food in him. The first time I tried a live pinky and it died overnight and from being on the warm heating pad was pretty rank. Just thinking about the smell makes me gag...

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I agree...the only thing worse than a dead rodent spoiled & reeking in a cage is when it's barfed up after partial digestion. Trust me...

Honestly my first "instinct" when that happened (many years back) was to try to stop the snake from swallowing it, but it was much too late. It wasn't a rat snake, btw, but this can happen with various kinds, and
it did happen to be a kind that typically feeds on lizards in the wild before "graduating" to rodents or mixed prey. And nothing bad came of it, & that snake took fresher f/t rodents from then on...it was something it
just had to learn I guess, & all we can do is let nature take it's course sometimes.