Now were cooking with rats!!!

[dryates]

So everyone says that if part of the rat is cooked it is bad but no one days y. So y is it bad?

[dryates]

Bump cuz everyone says it's bad, but apparently no one knows y

[dr del]

Hi,

I don't know why for sure.

I have read that they have issues digesting cooked food but how true it is I couldn't say.

It may speed decomp however which could potentially cause problems during digestion if it rotted faster than it was being digested.

The only other thing I can think of is partially cooked rodents tend to burst during striking and contriction and that is a far from pleasant thing to see, smell or clean up.


dr del

[Crazy4Herps]

I've got to agree with dr del on this one... it's just not natural, and pretty gross.

[Evenstar]

Because nature didn't design them that way. Snakes aren't meant to eat something that has been cooked - partially, fully, or any other way other than raw and whole.

Remember that snakes aren't like dogs or cats. We haven't taken them and developed them in certain ways to do certain jobs and be domesticated. Snakes are exactly the same in captivity as they are in the wild - no matter what kind of crazy morph they are, physically they are still the same in the wild. They would never eat cooked food in the wild so nature made them specially designed to swallow and digest their prey whole and freshly raw.

[LOSTCOAST_BALLZ]

y would u even want to cook them?

[dryates]

No one is wanting to cook them I was just trying to find out why it is bad incase part of the ft rat accidentally starts to "cook"

[steveboos]

Well it's going to take some extremely hot water to cook your rodent. I wouldn't really worry about it all that much. Just don't go putting a mouse in your microwave or toaster oven!

[Crazy4Herps]

Well it's going to take some extremely hot water to cook your rodent. I wouldn't really worry about it all that much. Just don't go putting a mouse in your microwave or toaster oven!

I second this based on personal experience. I tried microwaving a rat once. If smells could kill... I threw it outside immediately, and not even the dozens of city raccoons that used to live in our neighborhood would touch it. Truly revolting, something I wouldn't dream of bringing near my snakes!

[dr del]

Hi,

Believe it or not you got lucky.

Rats etc in the microwave have a tendency to explode - laminating their partially cooked internal organs all over the inside of the microwave.


dr del