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@Shampain She didn't eat him if that makes you feel better. Even though it has been a few weeks since she last ate she's not hungry. I kind of ended up giving the mouse to my little sister to keep as a pet
In the UK live feeding of vertebrates is very much discouraged unless it's a matter of the creature possibly dying of starvation if it won't eat anything else.
@Shampain I get you ... I love all animals, fluffy or not but my T eating a mouse is part of the food chain so I'm not that upset by it.
It would have been her first mouse and the picture was kind of cool so I had to post it
@Marija Don't worry about it. I can accept the fact that to others it is an acceptable part of the food chain. One of our local pet shops (a big chain) wouldn't sell frozen rodents for snake food because they sold them live as pets and it's only in the last few years that they had started selling the frozen too.
@Marija I have given a couple of our larger Ts a pinky (frozen and defrosted of course) on occasion but they didn't seem interested and they can get a bit smelly.
@Enn49 mine eats whatever when hungry but it has to be alive. I once tried to give her a half dead roach. The roach was still moving but not much so I kept moving him with the tweezers but she didn't even move. As soon as I dropped an active and fully alive roach she ate him.
@Shampain I know, they have no clue in keeping tarantulas. They once advised me to put a heat cable in the substrate... no comment needed...
I was just pointing out that our pet shops encourage feeding snakes, tarantulas etc. with live mice.
