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and it's a mouse... while my snake is just laying around the mouse is just making itself at home. *sigh...*

...but he and the mouse actually went so far as to take a NAP together. Perhaps you should enlighten him with a revised quote from "Finding Nemo..."

"Mice are food, not friends. Eat them."

My snakes have done this before when I sill fed live, just not hungry right now I guess and if he is not going to eat the rodent then why not exploit it for its warmth. I would suggest removing it for a day or 2. Dont leave it in there or you run the risk of the rodent attacking it.
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My BP did that too, they also (like the savannah) took a nap together, she ate another mouse while this one was in the tank too! She just liked this one! The mouse slept in her coils, I never left I watched that cage for houres! I just was amazed! The snake "cuddled" to this mouse before and after eating the mouses sister! I had my jaw dropped for like days! LOL
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It WILL start to eat your snake, it only takes mice a few hours to become very very hungry. It's also stressing out your snake.

Hello –

I imagine most of us have offered live prey to our reptiles on occasion. This photograph on the Pro Exotics web site illustrates why leaving live food UNATTENDED in an animal's cage is inviting disaster.

-Joan