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Eating Wild caught Mice?

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simthesnake

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Just to let you guys know. I do not have my snake yet. And I DO NOT plan of even trying to feed him wild caught mice. This is just something I've been thinking about.. So could a snake eat a caught mice like the ones you get in your house? What would be the difference between those and the ones in the wild? They don't eat labratory bred mice out in the wild, so would it be Ok if they ate a mouse found in the house or outside or something? I do not plan on catching mice and feeding them to my snake, it's just a thought. My mom figures theres no difference between those mice and the ones they would eat in the wild, What do you think? :shrugs:
 
well your probably thinking of house mice or field mice they are a whole different species to the common lab mouse (I think anyway).
Technically any animal of appropriate size and not posinous and in general easy to eat could be used as a feeder as long as it was free of parasites and diseases...
(by the way I'm not sure if this is true I'm sure that there are people on here much much smarter than me lol)
 
The only thing with Wild Caught mice is you never know if they got into some poison or they have a disease.
 
First off, yes they are different species. Second HUGE risk of parasites and all sorts of nasty things the snake could potentially get from eating the mouse. And I am not talking external, though it could be possible, but internal that could cause all sorts of complications. The diet that a mouse eats in the wild could also consist of veggies or greenery from farmers (if you live in that sort of area) who could potentially use pesticides on their crops, mouse eats the contaminated food which ends up in its system and then in your snakes.
The other thing is this; snakes in the wild build up immunity to certain diseases and parasites that they can catch from their food. The snakes in captivity MIGHT have some sort of immunity still but nothing nearly as strong as those in the wild thus increasing the risks further. So really its not so much the differences in the mice but the differences between the immune systems of wild and captive specimens.
 
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