Quote Originally Posted by guambomb832 View Post
According to the rule that ball pythons should eat 10-15 percent of their body weight, my ball python is supposed to be eating weaned sized rats. But one of the problems is that he is eating mice, and if I offer him a weaned rat he might not eat it and go on a strike. But since he eats live and frozen mice, I think he would not care if it is a rat or a mouse. A reptile store I go to a lot sells different sizes of rats, from pinkies all the way to jumbos and I was wondering if a weaned rat would give a ball python a nasty bite if allowed(and it won't be)?

Thanks
Well from my short expirience, mice has been more nasty to me than rats. Rats havent bit me yet and seem very social, there is even one sitting in my room at the moment, that Im not sure what ill do with... She was too cute to feed off . Anyways, I been bit twice by mice now .

My normal BP has eaten a few weaned (live) rats before no problem. But the last mice I fed her, It wasnt even a fully adult mice yet, bit her as she was constricting it and left her with 2 little scar marks from its teeth. Im sure it will go away with next shed.