Can we haz fud tiem naow?
Sep. 27th, 2007 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
platedlizardYes, yes we CAN!
Ichigo just ate his first prekilled, thawed, and nicely warmed up mouse jumper! Oh, I am so happy. I let it defrost on top of his cage so he could get a good whiff of it, then warmed it up in plastic bag under hot water, held it in front of his nose, got bit (because he could smell the mouse but apparently my hand had a stronger heat signature even after warming it up) peeled him off (his teeth are tiny, but sharp! It didn't hurt at all, but I bled. WTF?) (also, he constricted my thumb, IT WAS SO CUTE!!!), tried again, and this time he grabbed the right thing and 'killed' it. And ate it all up. No losing interest or getting scared of a dead mouse. Next week I will simply be putting the Warm Ded Mouse in the cage with no happy eat me dance.
(BTW, before anyone freaks out, ball pythons get to be 4 to 5 feet long, max. These aren't the huge Killer Snakes the media seems to think all pythons are. They're just about able to killoz a rat, and that's it)
No more buying cute little live feeders for me! I'm weird, frozen/thawed mice are, like, meat. And I LOVE meat (er... admittedly I prefer mine without fur on), but live mice are cute widdle fuzzy almost-pets I want to cuddle. Unless they're wild, in which case they gross me out and need to die. Ahem.
Anyways, happy!
Ichigo just ate his first prekilled, thawed, and nicely warmed up mouse jumper! Oh, I am so happy. I let it defrost on top of his cage so he could get a good whiff of it, then warmed it up in plastic bag under hot water, held it in front of his nose, got bit (because he could smell the mouse but apparently my hand had a stronger heat signature even after warming it up) peeled him off (his teeth are tiny, but sharp! It didn't hurt at all, but I bled. WTF?) (also, he constricted my thumb, IT WAS SO CUTE!!!), tried again, and this time he grabbed the right thing and 'killed' it. And ate it all up. No losing interest or getting scared of a dead mouse. Next week I will simply be putting the Warm Ded Mouse in the cage with no happy eat me dance.
(BTW, before anyone freaks out, ball pythons get to be 4 to 5 feet long, max. These aren't the huge Killer Snakes the media seems to think all pythons are. They're just about able to killoz a rat, and that's it)
No more buying cute little live feeders for me! I'm weird, frozen/thawed mice are, like, meat. And I LOVE meat (er... admittedly I prefer mine without fur on), but live mice are cute widdle fuzzy almost-pets I want to cuddle. Unless they're wild, in which case they gross me out and need to die. Ahem.
Anyways, happy!
