just adopted a second cat this weekend. what a critter - donovan. now i will have a team of "rodent patrol" this summer. not only mice, but i havent seen a roach, EVER. (i keep pretty clean, me and clorox cleanup have a pretty special relationship.)

but to get through college, i managed a reptile department at a San Fran pet store. you really dont want your snake eating wild mice. there are way too many toxins out there (fuel, mice poison, pesticides...) that the mouse can run through. snakes need a meal far and few in between, you can find other places to save a few bucks. richard, what type of boa do you have? i want a carpet boa, but my girlfriend would move out. now i am going to shop for a tortoise to fill my reptile void. probably a leopard tortoise.

cliff

Cliff, my very Chinese girlfriend keeps asking me (seriously) when we can cook up my Boa for dinner. I don't think a cat would last long around her either. My Boa is a Columbian Redtail. I would never feed him wild mice or rats. But the baby birds were just too tempting. It's like watching Discovery live in my living room. I keep him in a 75 gal. tank on top of my entertainment ctr. Just get your Carpet Boa as a hatchling. That way your lady can get used to him easily. Mine started out that way - as thick as my pinky finger and about 8" long. Now he's as thick as my forearm and as tall as I am. He's very friendly and has never even snapped at me. First time he does, he will become dinner and a hatband or a belt.

PICS!?!?!

Closest I came to having mice in the car was on the way home from the pet store. They had a sale on gerbils, which have nice protein-rich skin and fur. I love walking into a pet store and interrupting a kid playing with the rodents. "Excuse me. I'll that one and that one and that one." These damned gerbils chewed out of the box while I was driving home and started crawling around my feet while I was shifting. Getting them out of the car was a real b!itch too. I sure enjoyed watching them get squeezed until their eyes filled with fluid and popped. Rats put up more of a fight, but sometimes he grabs them just right and you can hear their spine snap and then they just go limp and suffer a slow asphyxiation. Muahahahahaha.....

i had a redtail boa too. but i sold him to a tranvestite that needed him as part of a show. i couldnt refuse his/her offer. i developed a trick during feeding that i passed on to everyone i sold a snake to. i only fed him in a bin designated for the purpose. that way, when i just reached into the cage, he didnt expect it to be dinner. but when i placed him into the bin, he went into attach mode. kudos to your chinese girlfriend, mine is too. but i dont think mine counts because i am chinese too :) jen is taiwanese, so i think eating snakes was part of her history. there is a street nicknamed "snake alley" over there, because that was what was on the menu. she is freaked by snakes, so i dont think i will count on one. haha. i love tortoises! i used to have a spurred thigh, but i lost her in a breakup with a psycho gfriend. what a beotch!

cliff

to bad you didnt film the baby bird feeding, or did you?

I haven't filmed a feeding yet, but just might for the next one. My snake is so low key. Be knows the second I walk in the door with live prey. I can reach in the cage after he hasn't eaten for a month and he's fine and just wants to crawl out and hang around me. Once live prey is inside the house, he goes nuts and it's hard for me to even open the lid without him snapping at the glass. If I had the space, I'd give him his own room with a kiddie pool and some serious heat lamps. But that will have to wait until the next house.

Eat him first before he does this. Clean, chop up in 2-inch sections, deep fry, served with salt and pepper. Does not taste like chicken, I was told.

wait until he gets big enough for rabbits.

A cat works in keeping the roodent population down, so does my female Airedale btw. You'd think the roodent was quicker...uhhahhh....

Anyway another way to get them is to put out some Cornmeal or peanut butter with cement mixed in....they die of constipation...they can't sh!+ out the cement. Which reminds me to tell U all to check out my new thread about a recipe for Madcow Enchiladas.

You know I have two cats and a dog. We had a mouse. The cat was only interested once the trap caught him, still alive. Then he was like "That's OK, I've got it from here..."

I got a call at the golf course from my screaming wife, asking what to do.

Last time we went away on vacation, one of the cats redeemed itself. But I can't tell which one to thank!!

I have three cats, all of which would make short work of rodents around. When I was letting Nathaniel, the cat pictured, out on a regular basis, we would find a dead rat or bird inside on the rug every other week or so. The best was the decapitated rabbit on the welcome mat. Sometimes he brings possums home, it sucks when they're alive and freakin' and ****ting on your floor at 3AM and your trying to catch them in a box, just like the situation below.

Anyway, last rat foray, I wake up to find the cat on the bed with this rat held gently in his mouth. I was a little groggy, and was like WTF? The cat drops the rat and gets this pissed off look on his face like "You suck for messing with my business" He then proceeds to ignore the rat for the rest of the night while I chase it around the bedroom and try to catch it in a box to take back outside. Seriously, this cat wouldn't budge, he just would calmly look at the rat, and then give me these looks of disdain as I clumsily try to corner this guy. Hard to do when they can run behind furniture and the like.



This is a pic of the rat sitting on my cat's ass.
Note the hairs on his back :D

http://concentricrotation.org/ratbutt.jpg

Jason

I've seen a snake eat a mouse, as the mouse was halfway in, the back legs started kicking and the tail twitching...talk about being eaten alive!

A "redtail" boa? It's a snake, for chrissake, it's all tail. :D

There is an alternative to using peanut butter on traps. Many times I found traps, still set, with the peanut butter licked clean off. My GF's dad suggested tying a bit of bacon around the trigger. Oh man- it never failed once. Either the bacon is still there, or there's a mouse dead in the trap.

mmmm...bacon.

lol slacker!

This is what I use. Works pretty decent ....

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1075918524.jpg

Curt,
Is that really your snake? We have two ferrets, but they don't "catch" anything except trouble!!!

cegerer, is that a ret python? funny how the snake ate that one tail first.

looks like it ate a dog.