Quote Originally Posted by lillyorchid
Okay...

This may sound weird, but I live by it! I had a friend buy f/t pinks for her snake. She got what I called a bad f/t pinkie and the snake... died. The snake was a corn snake that was bred by Cathy Love. It was a great little guy!

So what I now live by now is I buy ALL my snakes food items live, kill them off myself and write the date I got them/killed them. Just so I KNOW that when I killed them, they were all alive and kicking. When you buy a f/t prey item from a pet store you do not know why that or how that thing died. It could have been sick and died and someone could just just thrown it in the freezer, etc.


I'd wait atleast 10 days... maybe even 15 days before trying another feeding. Next time you might want to try a HALF of a pinkie!
Allison, no disrespect meant but really... aren't you overreacting just a smidge? if you get food poisening, then will you no longer eat any meat that has been raised and butchered by someone else?

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it's important to allow your snake to have no stress after a regurge. so no handling at all. leave it for a minimum of 10 days before attempting to feed again and find the smallest prey item possible. since it's already on pinks i would suggest 1/2 a pink. continue to feed the smaller prey items for another 3 feedings before you bump back up to a pink.

once they regurge... if they regurge again... it's bad news... my corn had some regurging in june/july but he's doing better now.