Not if you buy it from the pet store. They check the mice/rats that people buy to give snakes 99.5% of the time. They won't let an infected mouse/rat be sold due to possible spread of it's disease.
A corn snake can typically swallow a mouse in about 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the size of the mouse and the snake. The process involves the snake using its flexible jaws to grasp and gradually consume the prey. After swallowing, it may take some time for the snake to digest the mouse fully, which can take several days.
Take the snake to a VET of course - instead of waiting for replies on here !
Depends on from what temperature, to what temperature, the size of the mouse and for what purpose you're warming it. If you are intending to feed it to a snake (or other reptile) from frozen, a pinky mouse should sit at room temp for a couple of hours or in a cup of slightly warm water for about half an hour. A full size mouse will take several hours at room temp and an hour or two in slightly warm water. I would recommend placing it in a plastic zip type baggy before you do either (definitely before you put it in water). Check the temp with your finger (on the outside of the bag, so the mouse doesn't smell like you) it should be right at room temp when you feed your snake. Personally, I would always let them thaw either all day while I was at work, or overnight. Never microwave your mouse or use hot water, this will cook the mouse which will provide less nutrients to your snake, and possibly make it not taste good to the snake (causing the snake to not eat or regurgitate it). Also never feed your snake a cold mouse, since the snake is coldblooded it could make them sick.
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Snakes swallow their food whole - Take as an example a corn snake swallowing a mouse... The snake finds the mouse's head, opens it's mouth and grabs the mouse's nose. It pushes forward, stretching its jaws as it goes, until the head of the mouse is in the snakes mouth. Once the mouse's head is in the snakes throat, it's muscles grip the mouse preventing it from sliding backwards, while the snake 'walks' its jaws forward over the mouse's body. This process is repeated until the whole mouse is in the snakes throat, then muscles contract and push the mouse down to the snakes stomach.
They take about 60 days to develop inside the mother snake, before she lays them.
could it take 24 hrs ??? --- not sureyou should wait to feed your cornsnake again until you see that it has pooped, that usually means that within 24 to 48 hrs it will be hungry again, or at least that's how mine is :)~, or you could try offering a live mouse once a week, if he does not take the mouse within an hour, take it out and house it or take it back to the pet store, and try again a day later, cause the mouse will get up courage and attack your snake. if your snake is eating frozen mice, i would get him on the once a week schedual, or just wait for nature to come calling and watch for poo.
Take the mouse out and feed the tarantula something else.
There is no testing that has been done recording the amount of pesticide a mouse will take to kill compared to a grasshopper. The amount of pesticide that it would take would depend on the size of the grasshopper, and the size of the mouse.
depending on the snake, it will proboly eat the tarantula before it gets a thought to attack the snake.
it depends if your gerbil or mouse is active or lazy if your mouse is lazy and your gerbil is active then the gerbil is probably faster but if your gerbil is lazy and your mouse is more active then your mouse will be faster so it depends!!!!!
It depends what has eaten the mouse.If a venomous snake eats a mouse, it first of all catches it by biting it and injecting it with venom. Besides killing th mouse the venom actually starts to digest the mouse from the inside. This is important because the snake is a cold blooded animal and if the mouse takes too long to digest in the snake it may go bad inside the snake before it is digested.After eating, snakes become dormant while the process of digestion takes place. Being cold-blooded (ectothermic), the surrounding temperature plays a large role in a snake's digestion. 30 degrees Celsius is the ideal temperature for snakes to digest their food. The digestive process is highly efficient, with the snake's digestive enzymes and venom dissolving and absorbing everything but the prey's hair and claws, which are excreted along with waste. The time it takes for this digestion to complete depens on the external temperature and the size of the mouse but you are looking at a period of 5 to 6 days.If a cat eats the mouse then as a cat is warm blooded and very active and the mouse will be digested in about 6 hours.If an owl eats a mouse then the owl will spit out the fur and bones as a pellet in about 3 hours.