Oh dear!! That's funny, but in a bad car-wreck sort of way. LOL

I ran out of frozen feeders for my snake once, and it was going to be awhile before I could get more...so I went to the pet store to try and get some live fuzzies for him. The bozo at the store either didn't know, or didn't care where their feeder collection was, and he just grabbed me two of the smallest mice he could find in their display tanks. He gave me the impression that it was all they had...and I was too inexperienced at the time to know better.

Anyhow...I take these two home...put one into the feeder box and put my snake into his box...and he FREAKS OUT! He acted like that mouse was the killer bunny from Monty Python or something...all curled up in his rattlesnake imitation, hissing like crazy...striking at the poor mouse over and over again, but only out of defense, never in feeding mode. He never even drew blood.

Eventually, I realized how futile the whole thing was, and somehow managed to get my snake back into his cage without getting bitten myself...then put the traumatized mouse and his buddy in our old gerbil tank. (Yes, I love gerbils and recently kept some as pets! LOL) But not wanting to keep mice as pets, I called the pet store the next day and begged them to take the mice back...told them they could even keep my money if they would just take the critters off my hands.