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>>I just got a Pueblan Milksnake. He's 1 1/2 years old and has been fed live mice previously. This is my first time feeding him. I want to feed him pre-killed for safety reasons. I have had a mouse in there for a day and a half now. I am taking it out today. Is he still nervous from the move, or is it the sudden change in live-to-dead food. Any suggestions on how to make a dead mouse seem just as exciting as a live one? Or is it just hopeless because he's been feed live ones for so long??
My limited experience with pueblans has been that they get torqued out and need to settle. If he has only had live, much as you don't want to (and I would too) feed his first one live, from tongs. But wait a week first with just, no handling, settle in time. Then next feeding after that offer prekilled, twitching, from tongs....then work to less alive and more dead til he will take prekilled for you. My mexican hits things so fast she doesn't notice their state any more. And I have retaught snakes that ate live for 5 years and so, so it is possible.
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