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just a question....sometimes hope eats bakwards. sometimes after she has fully swallowed her pinkie it is still alive and I can see it moving inside her, this can't rupture any organs can it? today I heard the pinkie squeeking from inside her for almost 2 minutes....
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"

Will she not take F/T? That would freak me out! I didn't think things like that would bother me, but I found out otherwise when I was licensed as a wildlife rehabber and had to put a pair of fledgling kestrels thru "mouse school". You put the live mouse into their aviary and they have to hunt & kill it. Well, the poor birds did't know what to do and they were eating the poor thing alive and did it scream! OMG, I'd never heard such a sound. It really bothered me when I didn't think something like that would. And to be screaming inside of a snake... just gives me the willies LOL.

-Bonnie

That was my thought also, Bonnie. Not so much that it would freak me out or bother me...Just that switching to f/t asap would be in the best interest of the snake. Duffy

>>No, it will not hurt your snake but like the others I highly recommend switching to frozen/thawed.
Much safer as the snake grows and the mice get bigger.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

I agree. Most corns are extremely easy to switch to frozen thawed rodents with no problems.
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