Tips for a fussy, pissy retic? (pics)

[Squirtle]

If she eats for you in captivity, then I don't see a reason for releasing her. But man, is she beautiful! I would take her off of your hands in a heart beat if you were in NYC. You just have to keep handling her until she feels that you're no longer a threat, and she will most likely stop biting. As for feeding, you're going to have to stun her prey really good, although they can still fight back.

[Corey209]

Originally Posted by Squirtle

If she eats for you in captivity, then I don't see a reason for releasing her. But man, is she beautiful! I would take her off of your hands in a heart beat if you were in NYC. You just have to keep handling her until she feels that you're no longer a threat, and she will most likely stop biting. As for feeding, you're going to have to stun her prey really good, although they can still fight back.

Stunning doesn't do anything but cause pain.

[Squirtle]

Originally Posted by Corey209

Stunning doesn't do anything but cause pain.

I've stunned rats before and from experience, they tend to not fight back. Just to make sure, I put an object on the rats mouth to prevent it from biting my snake, so far, I've never had a prey item bite any of my snakes. Although they're still able to fight back, it's better to stun the prey than feeding a fully aware rat, which will most likely fight back and injure the snake.

[guyabano]

Originally Posted by Squirtle

If she eats for you in captivity, then I don't see a reason for releasing her. But man, is she beautiful! I would take her off of your hands in a heart beat if you were in NYC. You just have to keep handling her until she feels that you're no longer a threat, and she will most likely stop biting. As for feeding, you're going to have to stun her prey really good, although they can still fight back.

She blushed when I told her you said she was beautiful. haha
I thought the same thing when I saw her, so I decided to keep her.
How would you go about stunning a rat? Mice are stunned pretty easily by a flick to the head, but rats are more resilient. Seems that there's a fine line between stunned and dead with rats. Also, they seem to bleed more. I'd like to be as humane as possible when dealing with the rats. I breed my own and I treat them like pets up till the moment they're eaten.

Here are some recent pics of Esme. She's in her 3rd shed cycle in a under two months. Growing like a weed, she is. hashtagyoda

The night before her eye caps got foggy. I was misting her enclosure and she struck at me twice.


From this morning

[Squirtle]

Originally Posted by guyabano

She blushed when I told her you said she was beautiful. haha
I thought the same thing when I saw her, so I decided to keep her.
How would you go about stunning a rat? Mice are stunned pretty easily by a flick to the head, but rats are more resilient. Seems that there's a fine line between stunned and dead with rats. Also, they seem to bleed more. I'd like to be as humane as possible when dealing with the rats. I breed my own and I treat them like pets up till the moment they're eaten.

Here are some recent pics of Esme. She's in her 3rd shed cycle in a under two months. Growing like a weed, she is. hashtagyoda

The night before her eye caps got foggy. I was misting her enclosure and she struck at me twice.


From this morning

Are you sure she's just normal? I'm not too big on retic morphs, but she looks like something else to me.