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Smelly mouse??

Rachel

Rachel

Vet nurse in training!
Hey everyone,
I just stocked up on mice yesterday and have moved my older two up a size. So now my male is on one small adult mouse and the female on 2 fuzzies (the youngest is still on pinkies).
Anyway, I noticed when I took out the adult mouse to defrost that it smelt of urine. I have never noticed this with fuzzies. I checked all the adult mice and most smelt like this (if any of you keep/kept hampsters/mice its the smell of their urine corner :( )
I didn't think it would matter but washed the mouse anyway with warm water, dried it as best I could but Pretzel wouldnt feed off of it. Neither would he feed off of an unwashed one! They are definately not too big for him and the other snakes are feeding fine. Has anyone experienced this? There is nothing 'wrong' with the mice...they come from a reliable source. Is Pretz just being picky/unsure of his new bigger meal??
 
smelly

hi rach.
i dont know weather you know this or not but when adult mice are "CULLED" they urinate automaticaly as they die, its a natural defence thing that stops them being eaten,most times it does not get on the mouse if "culled" correctley, it only occurs when the mouse or mice are not "culled" quickly, i hope this is of some help to you,i would buy some more and dispose of the ones you have..........


............................ :( steve aka snakemanone
 
I'm Glad you asked~~~~~~:~

Rachel I'm so glad you asked this question. Some of my snakes have recently moved up to hopper size and when I defrosted them the smell was "not nice" but I wouldn't say urine smell just not good....My question is/was how normal is this or did I get a bad batch? I mean dead shouldn't smell that great but ...... So I wasn't sure if that it's because they are larger or because something is wrong. What are other people's experience with this? I never bought this size before and at first I thought it was just because they were big. Snakemanone's information is helpful ( I never heard that before) except that mine don't smell like urine. Beanie, Cornelius and Sauron have been eating them but Barbie won't touch them. So my bottom line question is how do your mice smell? Thanks Sam ~~~~~~~~:~
 
I don't feed F/T, but...

I do dispatch them before feeding to my corns, except for the pinkies and fuzzies. Those I feed live. Anyway, not all of the older mice--weaners, adults, jumbos--I get urinate after I've popped them. I have been surprised occasionally by some of them doing so, however. Nevertheless, none of my snakes have refused to eat because of the scent of urine. Perhaps--and I say this very cautiously, since I don't know--the mice you have have not been processed correctly. Or, perhaps the freezing process causes a bad taste somehow? Again, I don't know for sure. Let us know what you discover.
 
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