milksnake not eating HELP!

[UrbanJungles]

I heard someone just got caught smuggling close to 1000 pinkies in a suitcase into Heathrow airport.

 

[Sunset]

try to get your hands on a druff hamster pinkie. It mite be to cold. baby milk snakes are sometimes a hard snake to eat when there babies. has the babie shed maybe its just not ready to eat.

 

[steph09]

yepp nelson shed about 3 weeks ago nowf

 

[Lucas339]

i wouldn't worry just yet. people have had snakes stop eating for over 14 months with no issues. my hog just stopped eating. i never cool her but she still stops around this time every year. many, many, many snakes go off feed this time of year. don't force fed it! it is just off feed!!! nothing to worry about yet! if you start being able to see bones, then its time to worry. my money is that the snake is just off feed.

YOU WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE IF YOU FORCE FEED AND INJURE THE SNAKE.

 

[steph09]

nelsons only about 4 months old sooo thats why im panicking a little bit. but if the little man doesnt feel like feeding then the patient game it is. i wouldnt like to force feed him, thats the LAST resort. give it couple more weeks.

 

[Lucas339]

colubrids are common for doing this. like i said, my hog has done this all her life. and i got her at about the same age. don't panic.

 

[It_Glows]

live food? all of it? even worms and crickets?

 

[steph09]

ahh im a bit more chilled out now. crickets and worms are inverts so not classed as an animal, plus my T's eat them so doubt it. just mean like live mice to snakes. anything in a captivity are not allowed to be fed live food.

 

[pitbulllady]

i live in the uk and its illegal to feed anything live to a snake or any other exotic pet. thats crap yehh i know!
force feeding may only be the option

Yes, folks, another fine example of what our good friends at PETA, the RSPCA, and the other Animal Rights cultists have accomplished. Of course, the REAL aim isn't to protect the poor widdle mousies, but to prevent as many people as possible from keeping the animals that would eat the mousies. While most snakes will eat pre-killed prey, there are some that don't, and anyone who has ever kept many of the Lampropeltis species from the western US and the tropics will tell you that often these snakes, as babies, are picky eaters that require live food. This is sort of like a "backdoor ban" in that it's intended to discourage as many people as possible from keeping or breeding reptiles, especially snakes, when an outright ban on them could not be accomplished...yet. Just imagine going to jail for putting a few guppies in the water bowl of a Garter Snake.

pitbulllady

 

[Lucas339]

crickets and worms are inverts so not classed as an animal

thats a laugh! they don't classify inverts as animals!! what are they? plants? OMG people can be so stupid sometimes!!