Quote Originally Posted by cletus View Post
I'm dreading the day I have to come clean to my little ones about what my snakes eat. Up till now they have been satisfied with "snake food" or whatever else BS I make up.
LOL !!! If you feed FT you can always say that those are the little rats that died and whose souls went to heaven. They wanted their bodies to go to good use to feed all the good little snakes..

or something like that.

With live it may become a little more complicated !! I had a rescue snake years ago that only fed on live mice. My 3 year old walked in on me trying to feed the snake. The snake refused and off we had to go to buy a mouse cage. Sigh. Until a day later the mouse bit my daughter pretty good and she tearfully yelled that we should throw the mouse to the snake... Of course she later said she didn't mean it, but by then the little mouse moved on to greener pastures