Thawing Spotted Python Food

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Summary: Thoroughly thawing spotted python food is very important. Learn how to thaw frozen mice with tips from a reptile expert in this free video for snake owners.

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Cordell Jacques Cordell Jacques has worked in the pet industry for more than 10 years, and he is a reptile hobbyist. Jacques keeps more than 20 reptiles, frogs, fish and inve... read more

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Thawing Spotted Python Food

Okay, so you have your properly sized mouse for your spotted python. For the one particular that we're feeding today, we have a fuzzy mouse. He's frozen, so how do we thaw him out? How do we feed this little bugger off? Well, first rule, you don't ever want to microwave these guys. It's a messy business and you don't want to have to clean it up. Trust me. Plus, they don't really microwave well; they don't heat thoroughly so that they're well cooked. What you want to do is you want to take your mouse and you want to get a tub of hot water, and you're going to drop that guy in there, okay. Now, it should, depending on the thickness and the size of the mouse, it shouldn't take very long for him to thaw out. If the water starts to get cool, you won't have to reheat the water and try again. What you're really looking for, is you want your mouse to thaw out to the point where he's nice and squishy. It'll probably take a minute or so to get there. You shouldn't, he shouldn't feel hard anywhere in the body except for in the head. I know it's gross; we're squeezing a dead mouse, but in honest, it's no different than handling raw hamburger, and better to handle, to play with the dead mouse for a little bit than feed your reptile something that's not fully thawed. Feeding a frozen animal to a reptile is very very dangerous and can be very detrimental to their health, so don't do that; make sure it's properly thawed out. Once it's properly thawed out, you grab your tongs, you grab your mouse and you're good to go.