So yesterday morning I go check on my mice. I put a little hopper in with 2 female mice for company. He was hiding in the corner alone so I put him in the cardboard house along with the females. I come back later that day to find his guts hanging out and him dead. I was very upset because he grew on me and I wanted to raise him to become a breeder and just feed the snake the female adults instead. His name was dinner, and because of his death, that's what he became.

I put dinner in a plastic sandwich bag and placed it in warm water to heat him up. I then took the hide off of where the snake was (baby ball python, maybe a month old). This is his second meal, and I never bought tongs to hold dead mice, so I hold dinner by the tail and wave it in front of the snake. He is afraid at first, beginning to ball up, but after a minute or two he flicks his tongue and looks like he is getting ready to strike.

Needless to say he struck, me right in my finger and wrapped around quicker than I thought he could. As he was constricting my finger and biting harder and harder, I looked him in the eye and asked him how I knew this would happen. I walked around and showed my brother at first, contimplating on how to get him off without injuring or scaring him too much. I decided to run his body under warm water and he let go. I quickly ran him back to his tank for fear of another strike. I placed him in, and put dinners body on top of one of his hides. I came back to check 5 minutes later and he was devouring dinner. I am upset that he died, and will make sure the 2 female adult mice are fed live so I can watch. They killed my baby, and their time will come .

Thanks for your time guys, let me know any other way I should have done to get him off of me, or why the stupid female mice killed the baby...