My Boy's First Meal--Success!

[AzureN1ght]

Even though Auryn's only been here 5 days so far, I decided to try and give him a mouse this morning. I thawed the mouse out over night and warmed him up this morning, held him out with the hemostat and waited...it took auryn about a minute to realize that I was offering him food and not disturbing his privacy (underneath the KRAFT paper) for no reason!

He grabbed the mouse, I gave the tail a few tugs to seal the deal and then I left the room, turned the lights off and let him eat without being bothered. When I came back, the mouse was gone, and he was stretching out across the bottom of the tub (still under the KRAFT paper

No pictures! Didn't want to jinx his first feeding with me

[Kara]

Good show! Glad he's eating & settled in.

K~

[AzureN1ght]

Good show! Glad he's eating & settled in.

K~

[heatherhead42]

Woo-hoo!

I was sooo excited after Sammy's first feeding. I still get a kick out of it.

Congratulations.

Heather

[Snakeman]

congrats on the 1st feeding!! i still remember when my BP took his first fuzzy. watching him nab it faster than the blink of an eye, scared me for a sec.

[rabernet]

Awesome! Congratulations! All the "firsts" are so amazing! Can't wait to hear all about them!

[AzureN1ght]

Awesome! Congratulations! All the "firsts" are so amazing! Can't wait to hear all about them!

I'm sure I'll be the perfect obnoxious new snake-mom and post threads and pictures AAAALLLL about his firsts. "OMG! First Shed!", "OMG! He moved up a prey size!" "OMG! Look how cute he is all the time!"

Seriously, though--thanks everyone for the congrats! I'm so proud of Auryn. He seems like he's finally getting used to being in a bigger tub. And since he's my only Valentine today (the boy lives 2 hours away and works tonight), I'm especially doting.

And doting from a distance is hard! I still have to wait a few days before I can handle him at all

[fishmommy]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!


congrats

I just finished the first handling session with mine

I gotta warn you....put him on a towel and have a bunch of paper towels ready because the first handling will probably turn into the first pooping!

what a mess! luckily I anticipated it since he dumped on me the day I handled him at the breeder

so a couple more days and you'll have some new pics to share when he comes out to play

[krazi0469]

do you think that what could be wrong with mine not eating... is that he dont like live rats??

and another thing we started Jake on small rats... he he love's em' eating them with no problem.... the 1st one we fed to him... he jumped back 3 times b4 he realized it was food.... lol he was sooo use to the feeder mice...

now if only i can get Ace and our new snake "Ozzy" to eat :eek:

Even though Auryn's only been here 5 days so far, I decided to try and give him a mouse this morning. I thawed the mouse out over night and warmed him up this morning, held him out with the hemostat and waited...it took auryn about a minute to realize that I was offering him food and not disturbing his privacy (underneath the KRAFT paper) for no reason!

He grabbed the mouse, I gave the tail a few tugs to seal the deal and then I left the room, turned the lights off and let him eat without being bothered. When I came back, the mouse was gone, and he was stretching out across the bottom of the tub (still under the KRAFT paper

No pictures! Didn't want to jinx his first feeding with me

[rabernet]

do you think that what could be wrong with mine not eating... is that he dont like live rats??

and another thing we started Jake on small rats... he he love's em' eating them with no problem.... the 1st one we fed to him... he jumped back 3 times b4 he realized it was food.... lol he was sooo use to the feeder mice...

now if only i can get Ace and our new snake "Ozzy" to eat :eek:

Jess, it might be that - or it could be any number of things - overfed before, enclosure too large, hides not small enough, too much handling, temps not right.

I can't remember if you ever posted your set-up before, and if you did, I missed it. Maybe you can start another thread and we can try to help you out, so we don't hijack this one!