The Snake and the Hamster can be friends.

Alex · 01-21-2006, 10:56 AM

That's not necessarily so far from the truth.

I used to have snakes. Once the blacklight had failed and I didn't realize. This resulted in a somewhat stuporous snake with no appetite. Seriously it went three weeks without eating. The first time I put the mouse in to eat, I didn't pay much attention because the snake had always been a good eater and wandered of before being sure of the kill.

When I wandered back several hours later, the initially terrified mouse had completely calmed down and was attacking the snake every few minutes. Fortunately it had yet to do any damage but my vet told me I was lucky since he'd seen quite a few snakes mauled by lunches left in the cage and eye injuries are especially a risk.

(Until we figured out the UV problem I was required to render the mice unconscious before he'd spend the energy to eat them. I won't go into how that was accomplished.)

01-21-2006, 10:56 AM	#4
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	That's not necessarily so far from the truth. I used to have snakes. Once the blacklight had failed and I didn't realize. This resulted in a somewhat stuporous snake with no appetite. Seriously it went three weeks without eating. The first time I put the mouse in to eat, I didn't pay much attention because the snake had always been a good eater and wandered of before being sure of the kill. When I wandered back several hours later, the initially terrified mouse had completely calmed down and was attacking the snake every few minutes. Fortunately it had yet to do any damage but my vet told me I was lucky since he'd seen quite a few snakes mauled by lunches left in the cage and eye injuries are especially a risk. (Until we figured out the UV problem I was required to render the mice unconscious before he'd spend the energy to eat them. I won't go into how that was accomplished.)
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