My question is not whether or not it is safe to feed a wild mouse a ball python. They eat wild mice/rats in the wild. Yes I know they could get into poison etc. I appreciate your concern but please, as I said whether it's okay to feed a ball python a wild mouse because of poison etc is not my question. However I do have other concerns that I would like addressed. Also please don't just read the title and post. I just caught a mouse outside in the feed tub with a deli cup. He's about the size of an 18 day old rat pup. This is one of the mice that frequently gets into our feed. They always get into the feed every night and sometimes during the day too so I know they don't go far with a regular source of food which is why i'm not worried about poison. I have not done anything about this because they don't eat very much and I have a picky eater that seems to prefer mice and i've been trying to catch one. He hasn't eaten in about a month because though i've been offering baby rats he doesn't seem interested. I figured he was only interested in rodents that are alert and moving because he's eaten a small rat. But maybe he just prefers mice because I never had him turn down a mouse. Can I feed him this wild mouse live? Because he's never eaten anything but live. I put the deli cup in the tank, and the mouse seemed more or less frozen from fright so I don't know if he would even get close enough for a strike. Any thoughts?
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