Snake feeding, death 

@soapone Unfortunate. 🫂 The person that had my corn snake before me actually lost her from a similar circumstance. She randomly appeared again after 4 months. They had moved on and gotten a new snake in that time. Probably hid in the vents the whole time and chilled. They're pretty resilient creatures overall.

Snake feeding, death 

@soapone Yeah I kinda like how dumb they are. It's a fun contrast with how violent people expect them to be. I'm lucky my corn snake is a good eater, my ball python is a lot more finnicky. Sometimes it'll nom a bit and then shrug and go look for something else to do. 🤷 I find most predators I've encountered are pretty dumb outside of going for the kill. E.g. sharks.

Snake feeding, death 

@soapone Oh gosh no. I get them frozen. They get put down by gas so they don't suffer. Just kinda fall asleep. I find live feeding to be a bit cruel. It's also dangerous to the snake since rats have teeth and claws (accounting for that requires even more cruelty).

Taught my mother how to do the six-seven motion and gave her instructions to use it next time she's around her friends kids.

Snake feeding 

My corn snake decided she wanted to have a go at eating my hand again when I was taking her out to feed. I respect the hubris. She got a nice rat to eat once she calmed down enough to pry off of my finger and seemed satisfied with her clean terrarium.

Love this author's use of switching between second to first person to represent dissasociation.

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