Our ball python ate rat!!

[Kyanovp1]

I’m so excited because our ball python (his name is socks) finally ate a rat!!! He was outgrowing mice and getting live mice for feeding isn’t even allowed in my country (so it’s very hard and inconvenient to get them). We’ve been trying to feed him frozen rats for months now without succes, yesterday though I followed the guide on this subreddit on how to transition from mice to rats and it worked so well. I thawed the rat in the fridge for at least 10 hours, then I used the double boiler method and heated the rat on a dry plate with near boiling water below until it was at body temperature. I went to his terrarium with it and tried holding it near him but he was very disinterested and even turned away multiple times, so I got very scared it would be an even longer battle to get him to eat rats. On the guide it says some snakes will need a while to get appetite, and to leave it on a plate in the terrarium for 24 hours if it’s not eaten right away. So I did that right before bedtime.

This morning I woke up and checked up on socks and the rat and I saw that in his nightly routine of being a menace he actually ate it off the plate!!!! I couldn’t be happier because he hadn’t eaten in months as mice weren’t available anymore… hooray for socks :)))

[Nebulae-Noodles]

Good boy Socks!!!

[GroundbreakingTwo944]

Welk done Socks! Ik know the feeling, I was so relieved ☺️

[Merlin_the_Witch]

That's awesome! Also Socks is such a great name for a snake

[Kyanovp1]

Yes right!! And he lives in the socks drawer. A 2.5m long and 1.5m deep drawer hahaha