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Oh man.

A freind of mine in my dorm jsut brought me a big freshly-dead rat from the parking lot outside (I think she hit it with her bike). Now she wants me to feed it to my BP. I know it probably has parasites and other nasty stuff. She says freeze the thing to kill the worms then feed it to Marcus. I know from microbiology that freezing does not kill bacteria.

I don't feel comfortable feeding this wild rat to him, but my friend will be insulted if I don't. PLEASE somebody who is an expert post their opinion so I can feel better about telling her no.

Thanks in advance.

cook it and have them eat it....

liver,lungs and heart are good on crackers....(with butter)...fry the meat with a little garlic...

then see if they mind you throwing the dang dirty thing out where it belongs...

they are as edible(more actually)...for them as it is for the snake...

THROW it out...now...

then clean whatever it tounched as well as you can....

have fun with the fleas.....(they will with you)...

JYReptiles....

lol! Ya, I wouldn't feed it to your snake...
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-Lauren

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Well, I can't say I've ever known someone who would be insulted if I didn't feed my pet a rat that they killed for it.
Say your freezer broke and you had to throw the rat out and buy all new food.

Being a wild rat it may have injested pesticides that would be fatal to your snake. Just say no thanks,it isn't worth killing your snake.

Most wild rats are VERY hard to catch/hit unless there is something wrong with them. (like rat poison slowing them down to the point that you could actually catch/hit them. Explain this to your friend when you take them out to lunch and thank them for thinking of you.--not to mention diseases.

Rodney

feed the snake a real rat, throw that one out, tell her you fed it to him, then she is happy and your snake is healthy.