Today she switched from mice to rats with zero problem! I kept getting warned at pet stores and reading that it can sometimes be difficult to switch and that they don’t always like the smell and yadayada but she was super stoked to eat this little rat today. My heart was a little sad. The rat squeaked more and took longer to die, but she did great! And that’s what’s important.
Rats have more more protein and such right? If I remember correctly? Which I might not haha
Which also leads to the question: I feed live because I honestly don’t feel like reheating a frozen dead animal go warm temperatures and making it dance to get eaten. And also as much as it saddens me, there must be some sort of pleasure for the snake to be able to stalk and hunt and strike, right? Anyways, I feed live and always keep a chopstick ready god forbid something went wrong because I’ve read to never ever feed live unsupervised and if the snake does not eat it to immediately remove the rodent once lack of interest is obvious. I don’t want her to get bitten. Or if her dumb self strikes the butt I don’t want a dying animal to bite her to survive. And then I watch her swallow to make sure it all goes smoothly. Is there anything else to keep in mind or that I am missing?
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