"Zucker" rats

[Beardedragon]

http://www.nyas.org/ebriefreps/ebrie...s/newgard1.jpg


FAT

[stangs13]

Haha, alittle to much peanuts!

[rabernet]

Ummm, nope, won't be feed zucker rats to my snakes! Since they only get small/smalls, I'd never need one that big anyway.

[nixer]

now thats one fat rat!

[dr del]

Hi,

Wasn't there some suggestion that it was excessively fatty rats that had caused this to happen as the fat formed a sticky emulsion of the stomach acids that adhered to the poor snakes skin?


dr del

[wilomn]

Another thing people forget or just don't know is that large meals like those rats, when digested at a high temperature, can actually rot before they begin to digest.

If they rot first bacteria causes bloat. Imagine one balloon, the rat, inside another balloon, the snake. Inflate the inner balloon until it pops with in the outer balloon and you have the right image.

This bloating can also cause regurgitation and if that occurs, with the digestive process in full swing, the stomache acid that is expelled is in full digest mode and more volitile than it would be a few days later.

It's an interesting process, the rotting before digesting. WIth one or two animals being fed there is enough room for the snake to stretch and accomodate the expanding meal but with four going, or even just a too large meal in general, regurgitation is likely.

[frankykeno]

I understand the need to study Zucker rats in relation to leptin receptor function in order to better understand human obesity or diabetes. To knowingly breed one as a food source, I just don't get. You would be feeding a morbidly obese, basically unwell creature to your snake. I don't see the point of that.

[MDB]

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FAT

my godd he is fatt, lol

[dr del]

Hi,

And remember that poor burmese that regurged - they blamed the amount of fat on the prey animal for the emulsion effect that caused so much of the damage.

I Live in a country that deep fries snickers bars and serves them with french fries - I don't eat them and will never feed any snake of mine one of these rats.


dr del

[Dragnbaron]

I Live in a country that deep fries snickers bars and serves them with french fries

Surprisingly, i would try that, just once. Whoever thought of that mix must have really been in a weird mood... or in college... maybe pregnant?