One time I had my 2 large male Florida (yellow x gulf hammock & poss. Everglades?) rat snakes at our local library for a kid's program. This was the one & only timeOriginally Posted by craigafrechette
I've ever fed snakes for a live program, & I carefully packaged 2 just-thawed large mice "to go". I handled each snake & talked about snakes while the kids touched &
admired them up close, then I put each one back in their temporary large plastic "critter cottages" & explained what was next: these snakes are normally BONKERS
for food (like feeding a hungry BCI) but because they were in such unfamiliar surroundings, each one actually hesitated and then ate as politely as your Aunt Bessie
& her crumb-cakes!So you never know...and they were just as "polite" afterwards...I handled them one at a time a bit more, hahaha! Maybe this was better
though, their normal reaction probably would have scared some of them, or at least the librarian. (at least one kid "wanted to see them eat live")
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