feeding snakes

[Jye and Peady]

Hi guys,

My sister in law is interested in getting a snake for her son but is worried about feeding it mice and rats as she doesn't want to feed it anything that still looks like an animal . Is there anything else she could feed a snake that would still keep it healthy?

Thanks

[Ramsayi]

pie and chips

[abbott75]

Maybe take your sister-in-law for a walk in the bush. Let her see what nature looks like. Animals eat animals, that's the way it is.

[Khagan]

I hear they like cake.

[M.bredl.mad]

All jokes aside snakes eat animals to survive in nature, why would you want to teach kids any different from what occurs naturally?

[Chimera]

I got a similar question from my sister once. She asked whether there would be any snakes that could just eat Tofu

[Jye and Peady]

I agree M.bredli.mad,

Her issue is that she wouldn't be able feed the snake mice and rats as she just doesn't like the thought of it.

Her son is 7 and she thinks he is too young to feed the snake himself. He really wants a snake and she thought if there was another option she could get him one for his birthday.

I guess the answer is to wait until he is older and can be responsible for feeding without her having to be involved.

[Bredlislave]

There's a recipe around somewhere (someone will find it with ingredients to make sausages
which is a lotta messing around

Goes like this: minced turkey or chicken steamed bone meal or calcium powder
Centrum multi vitamin tablets
Sorry dont remember the quantities

[method]

Just pretend the mouse is a sausage

[Jye and Peady]

Thanks Bredlislave,

I searched old posts and found a recipie for sausages for snakes.

I guess the biggest problem would be if the snake was previously being fed mice it may not want the sausage.

[IsK67]

Originally Posted by Jye and Peady

Hi guys,

My sister in law is interested in getting a snake for her son but is worried about feeding it mice and rats as she doesn't want to feed it anything that still looks like an animal . Is there anything else she could feed a snake that would still keep it healthy?

Thanks

Tell her to not bother.

She should not be getting any animal if she cannot handle the need to care for it properly.

[Kenshin]

i dont get what the big deal is just buy mice defrost in hot water put snake in tub wiggle the mouse over the tub let snake hit, wrap and eat then put snake back so simple

[PhilK]

I'm of the belief if she can't handle feeding it what it eats, she should most definitely not be getting a snake. Try a lizard that eats fruit

[Jye and Peady]

Isk67, that was why she was asking, she won't get one if there isn't another suitable option.

Everything she has read says to feed mice and rats, she asked me if there was another option and I had no idea so I asked here (knowing full well that there would be plenty of jokes and people who think that both the question and my sister in law are stupid)

[Kenshin]

there are plenty of other options other then rats or mice for example off the top of my head rabbits, cats, chicks, chooks, birds, any other sort of rodent, quail