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Has anyone tried using rats for their eastern hognoses? I didn't have any fuzzy mice the other day for my eastern so placed a large pinky rat into the snake's food dish and she took it down without so much as a fuss. I would have thought she'd have avoided it as it doesn't smell like her normal mice.
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PHWyvern
Rats are fine for adding diversity. I say as long they'll take it and you KNOW its not bad, throw everything at them you can. Since you really don't see MBD in snakes, I am sure that lack of a calcified skeleton is really a concern. I know that a geriatric E I took care of kept getting stopped up with mouse hair and chunks of urates. We had to switch her to hairless rat pinks although it really has only helped some.
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why do you use a food dish? snakes don't keep a set of plates in the wild! LOL!
Snakes also die from impaction in the wild. Similarly, snakes don't eat f/t prey in the wild but wild snakes are sometimes fatally wounded by their prey. As responsible snake keepers, we try to minimise these risks by offering dead prey and by preventing the ingestion of substrate that may cause intestinal blockages (either by feeding in a separate container or providing some type of dish).
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