Horror Stories

[CRAZY]

I wanna hear some of everyone's personal feeding horror stories of feedings gone wrong. From extremities being ripped off of mice to a bite in the wrong direction.

I'll start:

I have 2. The first one is that when I was feeding my BP, I was holding onto the tail to tight and it ripped off. Not bad.

My second one is whats happening up stairs right now. About 5 minutes ago I fed my snake. The f/t mouse had a little blood on it but that wasn't unusual. So I dangled it in. My BP just got off a "Hunger Strike" last week so he was eager to get eating. He grabbed it and squeezed. A hole burst in the mouse's side and it started bleeding. Followed by intestines leaking out. The intestines never left the body but there's blood on the inside of the tank I gotta go clean out. I don't have any words to explain how extremely mortified I am.


*UPDATE*
I just went upstairs and checked on him. There's no blood in or on the tank, there is definitely blood on him. Which is a bad thing, because blood is one of the top bacteria harvesters there is. I don't when the next chance will be for me to take him out and clean him/the tank up because I don't know when he'll stop being in feeding mode. (He was in it all last week, hopefully he'll be done now.)

Share your stories please. And does any one have any advise on how to prevent this in the future?

[mpkeelee]

when i first got my snake i was thawing out a mouse fuzzy. the bag had a hole in it so it was soaked and nasty. when i picked it up with tongs the skin ripped a lil and when she struck and curled the skin ripped more and all types of guts and nasties fell out. she ate it then i cleaned

[BabysMomma]

I got a rat that had maybe thawed out before my supplier put it in his freezer, so when I thawed it out under the heat lamp it was a little stanky. Nothing worrying though, so on with the show, right? Well, Baby hit that thing so hard the tail broke off in the tongs, and when he squeezed it one of the back legs popped open. It was disgusting and it smelled like the burning of a thousand suns made of garbage, but he wolfed it down in three minutes and went back into his rock. I scrubbed the whole tank.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Feeding babies F/T newborn pinky rats is the worst. Most of the time they just explode and everything leaks out everywhere. Probably worse than that was when I was feeding my biggest female BP last year a F/T rat. She always needs to be coaxed to take them but when she finally strikes she strikes hard. She jerked the rat out of my hand so hard and fast that I couldnt let go fast enough. I actually degloved half the tail and was holding the tail skin when she coiled the rat. I looked at the rat and saw the raw degloved tail bone and was a little creeped out to say the least.

[withonor]

I had two gory shows in one night.

First, one of my small females wasn't into her meal much. I had to reheat and reoffer a couple times. After the second time I come back to look in on her and the rat is still there except she chewed on it so much she skinned it on one side and I could see the ribcage plus more. I took the deformed corpse back to the blow dryer to reheat and she got it down that time...

Later, one of the females refused again so I took the rat I offered her and put it in front of my big girl who already ate a small rat. She snatched it so hard the back-skin ripped off and stayed in the hemostats and the rat had a large bloody patch.

[withonor]

Feeding babies F/T newborn pinky rats is the worst. Most of the time they just explode and everything leaks out everywhere. Probably worse than that was when I was feeding my biggest female BP last year a F/T rat. She always needs to be coaxed to take them but when she finally strikes she strikes hard. She jerked the rat out of my hand so hard and fast that I couldnt let go fast enough. I actually degloved half the tail and was holding the tail skin when she coiled the rat. I looked at the rat and saw the raw degloved tail bone and was a little creeped out to say the least.

That's some serious interactive gore. Nice. I need an unsure demented smiley here.

[CA cowgirl]

Tonight a very cute black and white "jersey cow" looking mouse was devoured by my piebald. He squeezed so tight that I thought the eyes of the mouse were going to pop out!

For the OP, how did you thaw/heat the prey that had the guts burst? Did you thaw it only one time or did you re-freeze it at a different time?

[withonor]

Tonight a very cute black and white "jersey cow" looking mouse was devoured by my piebald. He squeezed so tight that I thought the eyes of the mouse were going to pop out!

Aww, your story if very "Hello Kitty".

[fire-eyes]

I overheated a F/T mouse (almost-boil water, put mouse in that -- I no longer do it that way), presented it to my BP which struck unusually hard, causing the belly to blow out and sending mouse intestines all over my face... It was one of those mortifying moments.

[angllady2]

I had one of those last week.

I am just switching my largest BP babies to F/T rats instead of mice. One of my girls had not eaten the time before due to being in shed, so she was pretty doggone hungry.

I offered her a rat, which she hit instantly. When she relaxed her coil, she started eating it rear end first since that was closest to her mouth. I tried to help her out by turning it around, but she wasn't having any of that and coiled the rat so tightly you couldn't even see it. She got the tail down okay, but naturally the rear legs got stuck on each side of her jaw. After trying for several minutes to just swallow it, in her hunger and fury, she jammed the rat head first against the bottom of the tub and proceeded to shove and shove and shove until I thought she was going to break her jaws apart, but she finally managed to shove hard enough to dislocate the rats legs and it went down. I watched her like a hawk, I was so scared she'd hurt herself. She yawned for a solid 24 hours afterward, but she got it down and it stayed down. Last night, she hit her rat just as hard, but then politely nosed it around until she found the head and ate it properly. I guess one time doing it the hard way was enough for her.

Gale