The snakes hunt by scent not sight, that's why Jewels has chewed on me a few times. I feed them with tongs and the pinky mice are frozen when I get them, so they are just food to me. When the snakes were tiny, like 4 day old tiny I had to cut the pinkies up for them, which I learned you do when they are still frozen otherwise it’s kinda gross. If I didn’t have frozen pinkies they would get worms and fish only, pinkies just make it a balance diet. If you want to see/read more on my garters you can go here Gail's garter - the snake kind silly.
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Interesting. Just found out they're my state reptile. Which makes sense since we used to catch and release them and one wandered into my bf's breezeway freaking me out. Jerk. I just assumed they'd eat bugs too, but maybe he was there for our chipmunks or baby squirrels. Or random toads that hop by.
I think feeding live mammals would be difficult. And frogs, fuhgetaboutit. People get used to it, but it'd be a difficult learning curve for me.
I have a mental image of you making a thawed pinky mouse dance around. Again, I'm assuming they generally go for live prey, or they'd be swallowing rocks all the time. Unless they also go by scent. So much I don't know. Pondering as I type, and sit here on hold.
It's hard to stick to just frog talk... Anyhoo, can't wait to see updates and pics on new additions. I think they're the same type of tree frog discussed in a post that made me very sad/angry. So looking forward to seeing some being taken care of.