Horror Stories

[BPelizabeth]

well when I did F/T...I put it on the back of the car for a few hrs to thaw in the sun. Hmmmmm live in AZ...it exploded...ick!!

There are a couple of times with Henry...who is a total goof ball. He grabbed the mouse by the butt...and was constricting...of course not kiling it because he was constricting the bottom half. It took so long for the poor mouse to die and when he finally let go the mouse was completely flat on the bottom half. Another time he squeezed so hard the poor little mouse had blood coming from the eyes. It was really gruesome and hard to watch.

[CRAZY]

All these live stories of the mouse being eaten alive or bleeding from his eyeballs. I'm not critisizing you, but that's why I don't feed live. I wouldn't be able to stand it.... I commend you for standing there and watching....

[Freaky_Ferret]

Well, I have a few, some just utterly stupid on my part.

#1: I was running late to work and I needed to feed my corn snake, the fuzzy hadn't thawed enough so I though "hey, I'll stick it in the microwave for a sec", 5 seconds and it still wasn't warmed up, so I put it in for another 5 seconds and I hear this loud "POP", open the microwave, and there's exploded mouse EVERYWHERE...smelled like chicken though....

#2: I was feeding Pretzle, my BP, and I had the mouse in the tongs, BP was in strike mode and my cat Demon took a leap at the tank trying to get the mouse. As I pushed Demon away, my hand dipped low just as BP went to strike the mouse, it was the first and only time my BP ever bit me and he instantly let go, but he hit one of those veins in between your finger joints, so I was bleeding like crazy for about 5 min while my mum ran around screaming.

#3: Both my BP and my corn had instances where the mice exploded as they "killed" them (I only feed pre-dead)

#4: One time my corn struck it's dinner and somehow decapitated it....

#5: and after the fact story- My BP took the biggest snake crap I'd ever seen and managed to get it stuck to the side of his tank and it dried and would not come off! This thing was almost 8" long...and smeary...it was so gross...

[zantedeschia]

Well, I have a few, some just utterly stupid on my part.

#1: I was running late to work and I needed to feed my corn snake, the fuzzy hadn't thawed enough so I though "hey, I'll stick it in the microwave for a sec",

Microwaves can cause hot spots, burn your snake on the inside. Your snake would have lasted until you got home from work.

[harper]

After reading this thread, I now know I haven't seen anything as bad as I might have thought!

My only horror story is mostly horrific because it was my first snake, and it was only his second or third feeding. I was feeding a f/t fuzzy and he struck hard and caused a huge explosion of mouse guts out the back end of the mouse. It went all over his hide, his water dish, his tank, himself. Gross. I was relieved to learn that it was a fairly uncommon occurence, since it hasn't happened since then.

[Freaky_Ferret]

Microwaves can cause hot spots, burn your snake on the inside. Your snake would have lasted until you got home from work.

No need to criticize, that's not what this thread is about. Obviously that was the first and last time for that.

[CRAZY]

My BP took the biggest snake crap I'd ever seen and managed to get it stuck to the side of his tank and it dried and would not come off! This thing was almost 8" long...and smeary...it was so gross...

8"... good lord....

[zantedeschia]

No need to criticize, that's not what this thread is about. Obviously that was the first and last time for that.

Was merely a comment, not a criticism.


Sadly, I have no gory stories to tell.

Well, my daughter, when she first got her snake, would bring a pot of water to boil. Then toss the frozen fuzzy in the very hot water and leave it 10 minutes. Then couldn't figure out why her snake wouldn't eat, tho the poor thing tried, it would chew on the overcooked fuzzy, make a mess of it, before spitting it out. But that was her, not me.

I've been bit a couple times feeding but nothing exciting or gushing blood.

[ed4281]

I just had a horrible experience Eco earth coconut bedding, my snake struck at her mouse, missed and got a horrible mouth full of this stuff and couldn’t work it out. She literally chocked on the stuff it was stuck like paste to the bottom and top of her mouth and completely clogged her glottis. I will never use this again.
She's doing fine now although a little pissed about the mouth rinsing but she went back in ate the mouse amazingly enough

[jsmorphs2]

I have to agree, the two stories of rat/mouse parts exploding in their faces....doesn't get grosser than that! ** makes gagging sound**

I've had rats "pop" but the grossest and saddest thing was when some one gave us a sick gerbil he wanted us to feed off to our Berm aka garbage disposal. Well, we were used to feeding f/k mice but have never stunned a gerbil so I told my fiance to stun it the same way. He grabbed it by the tail and swung it to stun it on a hard surface and as he came down the gerbil flew across the room and he was left with the de-gloved tail skin in his hand. We immediately gave the gerbil to the snake to humanly constrict.