by $moke » Sat Oct 24, 2020 6:04 pm
One of my corn snakes, Spagetti, is just utterly disgusted by food that has hair/feathers on it.
Which is...kinda impractical given that tbe easiest way to feed snakes is to give them small dead animals.
It actually took a while to realize what her problem was, the former owner raised her with baby mice/rats which had no fur due to age, and she seemed normal until she got too big for pinkies and was swapped to adult rodents. Girl legit stopped eating. Her former owner of course first suspected a medical problem but no test brought any clearance.She always readily came to the food, showing interest, until the moment she touches a mouse, and legiz bounces back. When i got her, i tried around with different meat and seeing that she refused anything except chicken breast i somewhen realized the difference between a full dead animal and a piece of cooking meat is the fuzz. I tried it out and shaved a dead quail chick like a complete idiot and hooray, she actually was fine with it then, even tho she refused to touch it before. So far nobody has any clue why she has this, she got thoroughly checked, and we found simply ways to feed her un-hairy food but this is still one of the weirdest quirks I've had in an animal, she had me so worried before i found out? :"D
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