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- Oct 11, 2018
I just keep cringing thinking of Pissa feeding live mice and rats to her snake. And not just because I've kept domestic ratties before and know how sweet those little fuckers are...
But because a rat can SERIOUSLY fuck up a snake. Even little mice can cause damage. If the little guys decide to fight before dying, their bites can easily puncture the scaly skin of our snek frens. Those bites are highly prone to infection, especially if their enclosure isn't kept sanitary (and you know this poor snake doesn't have a clean enclosure). Once infected, those bite wounds require veterinary care, resulting in either antibiotic treatments or, in the worst cases, euthanasia. (source - have a friend that actually lost her black rat snake to a live rat she decided to give him as a treat. Go figure.)
This isn't even counting any parasitic infections that can be transferred from prey to predator if the prey fed isn't from a reputable source.
#freegomez
#freesnek
#freetheanimalhoard
But because a rat can SERIOUSLY fuck up a snake. Even little mice can cause damage. If the little guys decide to fight before dying, their bites can easily puncture the scaly skin of our snek frens. Those bites are highly prone to infection, especially if their enclosure isn't kept sanitary (and you know this poor snake doesn't have a clean enclosure). Once infected, those bite wounds require veterinary care, resulting in either antibiotic treatments or, in the worst cases, euthanasia. (source - have a friend that actually lost her black rat snake to a live rat she decided to give him as a treat. Go figure.)
This isn't even counting any parasitic infections that can be transferred from prey to predator if the prey fed isn't from a reputable source.
#freegomez
#freesnek
#freetheanimalhoard