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Houston posted...

I don't know much about snakes and their feeding so:

1. By frozen, I'm assuming you let it thaw before you feed it to them? Is it room temperature?
2. Is that baby mouse capable of hurting the snake? Or just rats?
3. Do you think snakes are happy in "smaller" enclosures? Is all they really care about food and just being fed? They have have social needs?

@MabusIncarnate

Yes, you let it thaw out by various methods.

No, the baby mouse, and again i'm gonna be cruel, is basically bite sized and they don't feel the need to strike, coil, and eat it unless it's a small snake, they will typically just grab it and swallow it. It does not have the jaw strength or capacity to bite a snake in that stage, no.

Reptiles aren't capable of feeling emotions, so the need for socialization isn't there. Their primary goal in life is staying warm and eating. Pythons detect heat through the vents above their upper jaw line. At times, they cannot distinguish between a human hand and prey. People who claim their snake "loves them" likes to wrap around them solely for heat and to stay warm. They aren't capable of love. So considering that, if the snake has adequate space, is warm, has a water source it can soak in and is being fed, it's perfectly content in a enclosure as a pet. It will never have an awareness that it's "trapped".

This picture shows those vents, they are for detecting heat signatures, they aren't nostrils.



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