Do snakes eat cooked meat

Answer 1

I can state with certainty that wild snake will eat carrion. I can't vouch for how common this is but I can say that the three metre wild carpet snake I have living on my property regularly eats the dead mice I leave out for it. Initially, when I noticed the dead mice I had trapped and thrown away into the garden disappearing, I assumed a fox or local cat had been picking them up at night. But then I saw a three metre carpet snake, that has been living around the property for a number of years, slither up and eat one! I put another dead mouse close to the snake whilst it was resting after eating a large possum, and it awoke from its slumbers, consumed the mouse and returned to its rest!

So although I don't know how common this is, I can tell you that wild snakes will certainly eat carrion.

Answer 2

Snakes normally eat uncooked meat. Snakes natural prey would be live, until attacked by a snake for food purposes, then the animal that is dead is therefore not cooked. Snakes would therefore not normally eat cooked meat, as snakes obtain valuable fluids from their prey, which reduces greatly the need for snakes to seek other form of liquids to keep them hydrated. If in doubt in the case of a pet snake contact a qualified veterinary surgeon.

Answer 3

Yes, but it is very unlikely because they sense heat to look for prey, and since dead things aren't necessarily warm, it may just ignore it.