"Cooked" frozen fuzzy

[Salamander Rising]

Can a reptile eat cooked meat? Yes. Should they? Probably not. The cooking process destroys a lot of essential and natural nutrients found in whole prey. All stuff needed for raw whole prey eaters. Feeding cooked meat once or twice or even several times is not going to affect anything negatively. But it will if it becomes a staple diet.


Dogs cannot fully digest corn. Corn is just a cheap filler and used to bind kibble together. Even a cow, with a multi-chambered stomach, cannot digest corn. So its within reason that a simple stomached species like a dog cannot either.

An animal can survive on certain diets. But surviving and thriving are completely different things.

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The local herp dude told me of a lady who fed her BP fried mice.

It rode around on her shoulders and she'd casually hand it the fried mice like potato chips.

The snake outlived her.

Gross but true.



Happy T-Day.

[satomi325]

The local herp dude told me of a lady who fed her BP fried mice.

It rode around on her shoulders and she'd casually hand it the fried mice like potato chips.

The snake outlived her.

Ugh. Nasty! I really want to know what that snake looked like!
If I only ate KFC, I bet I'd look like crap. >___<;;



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[Mr Oni]

Thanks guys.

[NH93]

So to answer the OP, I think your snake will be fine just try other methods of thawing - it's kind of a trial-and-error game. Everyone does it differently, and many methods will work.
There will only be an issue if your snake regurges the meal, but it doesn't sound like that will happen to me.
(I personally don't even bother with water while thawing, just set it on the counter in a baggy. I'm lucky enough to have a partner who doesn't care, and no other pets to bother with a dead mouse/rat).

[Kodieh]

Hottest water the tap can give me, and let em sit. Works fine. All my snakes are healthy and poop normal looking turds on a regular basis.

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[jxl]

If you have time unthawning in refrigerator would be best. Hot water only accelerates things.

It's just the same principle as preparing frozen meet for yourself

[NYHC4LIFE8899]

I keep it simple if and when I feed FT..I let it defrost at room temp,fully defrosted..then hold heat lamp 6" above it for appx 5-7 mins...never had a problem. All I feed now is live anyway.FT is a pain and annoying. Easier for me now a days anyway