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First ever live feed

ILOVECORNSNAKES

My lil Delilah!! ^^
I fed Delilah today. Okay its not HER first ever live mouse, but its the first one IV ever fed her. I fed her about a pinkie size mouse, though iv been feeding her fuzzie frozens, i was a little scared, so i went a bit smaller. I didnt knock it out, just set it in her feeding container, n set her in it. Usually it takes her a bit to get interested in her mice, but when i fed her this live one, she went for it INSTANTLY. But, if they are live, isnt she supposed to constrict it, and then swallow it?? She didn't. She just swallowed it whole...Is that bad???
 
pinkies aren't bad if they're swallowed live because they don't have any teeth or nails to hurt the snake on the inside, I'd be worried if it was a live adult mouse or hopper, though. For corns f/t is much better since some snakes don't constrict..
 
I chose to stick with frozen mice for all of my snakes because the breeders of all of my snakes started them on frozen and they took to it well -- and I guess they developed the habit for not needing to constrict their prey. Some of them, when super-hungry, will wrap themselves around their thawed mouse out of base instinct, but I never see the wrapping become as intense as constriction. I'd be more worried about my snakes getting injured by the mouse versus the mouse suffering.

(Besides, as pathetic as it sounds -- considering that I am feeding a formerly alive mouse to my snake -- I can't stand watching the little baby mouse blindly staggering about, moving its little mouth as if looking for its mother...it really tugs at my animal-luvvin' heart...:cry:)
 
(Besides, as pathetic as it sounds -- considering that I am feeding a formerly alive mouse to my snake -- I can't stand watching the little baby mouse blindly staggering about, moving its little mouth as if looking for its mother...it really tugs at my animal-luvvin' heart...:cry:)

But then the snake gives the poor little thing a hug!

http://tinyurl.com/29otn5

(Not a live feeder here, myself...)
 
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