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she missed her rat and got a mouth full, this is her trying to clean out

Now this is when it would be nice to have arms and hands. When my toads get non food stuff in their mouths they can get it out easily by pawing it out.
I feed my snakes in feeding containers so they don't have to bother with getting stuff in their mouths.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

One of the reasons I prefer paper.

How harmful can this be to a snake? I have my sons kingsnake on aspen but feed him in a different container.
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1.2 Black Pines
.1 Albino Northen Pine
1.1 Northern Pines
1. Hypo Bull
1.1 D. Deppei

They can pass it through their systems, she got it all out though. I keep my kings on paper but my pines like to burrow so they get aspen shavings. theyre usually in the hides or tunneling through the aspen. it cant be worse then what their mouths get full of in the wild.

I stopped using aspen for this reason and switched to cypress mulch- due that its harder for snakes to get a mouth full of it, and frankly I think it looks much better than aspen in the cage and for 3$ a bag its a great price, AND I found its a great potting medium for my Cattleya species orchids- they root in it very well.
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Boa: 1 Hogg Island, Bulls: 3 normal, 1 Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, 1 Kingsville, TX Red, 1 MN, Corns: 2 Okeetee, SC, Foxes: 2 Western, Gophers: 2 Sonoran, Cochise Co. AZ, Kings: 1 Black Eastern (L.g.nigra) Todd Co. KY, 4 Coastal CA, 3 NC Eastern Chains- (M from Union Co. & F from Mecklenburg Co., and 1 from unknown), 1 Gray Banded 'Blair's', 3 Speckled, Harris Co. & Liberty Co. TX, Pines: 2 Northerns (M from NC, F from SC), 2 Louisiana (pure descendants of Terry Vandeventer stock), 1 Southern, Pythons: 3 Ball, Rats: 2 Black, Henderson Co. NC, 1 White Sided, 1 Albino Black, 1 Western Green, Mt. Hopkins, Cochise Co. AZ, 11 Tarantulas, 150 Orchid plants, 40 assorted Tropical plants and violets, 3 Freshwater Planted Aquariums with West African Dwarf Cichlids