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Hi I know for a fact that my pacman frog is big enough to eat a mouse but this will sound like a dumb question but since the can catch them in the wild alive. When and if you feed your frog a mouse is the mouse dead or alive because I think if it was alive then it would really hurt my frog.

I feed my pac-man a pinky mouse that I have thawed out maybe once a month. I mainly stick with feeder fish, dusted crickets, night crawlers, and sometimes some waxworms. Mice really aren't very healthy and I wouldn't use it as a staple diet. Also if you are feeding him live mice I would imagine they could really hurt your frog. My largest pac-man is about 3 inches right now and I still stick with pinkies.

Thanks for the help and I do not feed my frog mice or even live mice yet he has been on feeder fish crickets, ect. But thanks for the advice.

i feed my pacman a live mouse once a month, he has been on this diet for the last year. he has never been bitten by one, and its pretty cool to watch as i put the mouse in he perks up and will chase it tell he gets it. i have had him for 2 years. the only thing he will eat is a mouse a month, thats it, its awsome. if i put more then one in there he will eat it, but i don't like to do that. good luck

Mice are not unhealthy when fed to a frog. They are only a problem if they are fed rodents to excess.
On a usable kcal basis rodents are no higher in fat content than most of the other items people feed to the frogs including crickets.
Check the older posts for the values.
I would not suggest feeding live rodents to anything. Most frogs will take prekilled or frozen/thawed rodents off tweezers or forceps.

Ed

my personal opinion on the whole live/frozen rodents is to NEVER use live rodents, my reptiles mean the world to me and i would never put any of them at that risk, what if the frog doesnt catch it right and the mouse fights back, what if the frog isnt hungry but the mouse is, ur pacman could be seriously injured/killed , ive seen pix of a bearded dragon that was devoured by a number of crickets left in the viv, and snakes with scars/missing eyes etc from live food, so i reckon a rodent could do a hell of a lot of damage to ur frog, it is also illegal (in my country anyway , Scotland) to feed one vertabrate animal to another..
the only time that i would consider it is with a neonate snake that will not start feeding otherwise, or a snake that has been on hunger strike for MONTHS, even then this would be after i had exhausted all other possibilities

just my opinion but i know it is shared with many others, i simply dont feel i need to use live rodents when i use live insect feeders for all my animals that will take them, and with my brothers python we simulate a live animal (well to our best abilities) by warming up the mouse and using tongs to make it move around, the snake will strike and constrict, especially if u make the mouse struggle a little with the tongs after it has been bitten (this is done outside the viv so the snake does not think anything coming into its viv is food, less chance of us getting tagged ha ha)

I once ended up with a pet rat because a friend of mine tried the live food thing. They had a nearly 6 foot python and still fed rats. They put the rat in and she bit the snake. The snake would have nothing to do with this particular rat. They put her in 5 separate times and the snake wouldn't have a thing to do with her. Out of kindness on my part, the rat lived to a healthy old age with a companion rat at my home. I never wanted her to feel that fear again. Crickets, fish, and maybe pinks are one thing, but live food is not on my list.

Cara Fusinato