I use one specific spoon to scoop the poop of my Hognose, I just realised that it's gone and that I must have washed it in my dishwasher last time I redid the terrarium and cleaned, so I definitely have eating from said poop spoon. Have now taken a new one, that I already marked with a saw lol
Please kill me, thanks.
From poop knife to poop spoons.
We need only find the Poop Fork, and the Triforce of Fecal Cutlery shall be forged!
What would the poop fork be used for? If the knife was for cutting poop so the toilet can be flushed and the spoon it to clean a terrarium, what would people use a fork on poop for?
A pitchfork? Like…I’m pretty sure that’s just a normal pitchfork
I mean a shovel is basically a giant spoon too. But I'm wondering what someone might use a normal table fork for in relation to poop?
I used to have a self-cleaning litter box with this rake thing that went back and forth over the box to push/pull clumps of litter into a drawer. Sometimes the rake would go through a squishy one, and we'd clean the tines with an old fork.
Buddy boy do I have news for you.
But they were deceived, for another utensil was forged...
The POOP SPORK.
ONE SPORK TO RULE THEM ALL
🙏😔😔😔
Haha, I tell people I like to not take that one pretty, specific mug for tea or coffee when they come to hang out for loosely related reasons 😁
So far, no incidents with the poop spoon, only that my housemate complete a little because I accidentally took one of her favourite spoons (but she didn't want to take it back when I apologised and offered to return it for some reason lol).
I will also not hesitate to serve people tea/coffee in the mouse mug if it's someone I don't like and I don't care if aita would call it petty, ha!
In general, are you supposed to heat up your snake’s meals?
Mine would only take mice that were gently thawed in warm-to-hot tap water. She wasn’t picky in any other way, but she had to have her sous-vide mouse.
(I just never told anyone which Pyrex I took for the mouse)
That’s interesting. Thanks for responding!
If you leave the meeces in the microwave too long they explode 😬
Oh wow 😥
Which would be one reason why warm water, placing under a heat lamp/on heat tape, or a hair dryer are all recommended warming methods for a thawed feeder and microwaves are not.
Yes, the mouse should be heated to roughly body temperature. This is especially important for pythons so they can sense the mouse with their heat pits.
Thank you!
I bought a plastic soup ladle / serving spoon from the Dollar store. It's teal/aquamarine, and is extremely out of place in my kitchen, lol.
My whole kitchen is teal/duck egg blue. Well, the utensils etc.
I feel this in my soul. A similar experience with a soy sauce dish that was being used for a drop feeding dish for shy little ones led me to going down to Daiso and purchasing a stack of 20 of those, 15 side dish 5 inch plates, and a few other things. All pet dishes are now pure white or white with red bottoms, and can no longer be confused with any of our kitchenware. All snake water dishes are unique to them as well.
Dollar general had a pint sized kitty litter scoop for a buck, got it and never went back, that thing rocks for spot cleaning.
And for defrosting micicles we have a designated bag of red solo cups, we need two per feeding day, they get washed and reused for a while and only recycled once they start to get cracks or something, we keep them in the reptile room in the supply closet so they never get mistaken for something to be used for humans. We don't use red solo cups for human guests.
Same goes for the other equipment. I have separate fish tank and snake stuff, no cross contamination is allowed. Tongs, buckets, decorations, etc. It stays on one or the other side, and if I ever transition something, say a coconut cave, it gets a good boiling between them before being moved.
I love the word micicles! I may start saying it now, it deserves a wider recognition
It's micecicles when frozen, once thawed it's cheesebois.
How do you find heating up in the plastic cups? I was using one of those plastic coffee thermo with a lid type things and was having to switch the water every like 5-10 mins cause it wouldn’t hold any heat. I’ve switched to a stainless steel one now and it goes much better even without a lid
Oh I dont really. I put them in warmish water and let them sit for a couple hours to reach room temps, then I dump them and refill with hot water, like 80-ish and let sit for 10 minutes to get them up to a reasonable temp, then I dump out the water, dust with vitamin/calcium powder, and start going down the line of tanks and tubs. Honestly I've never had an issue with room temp mice. At least not with any of the colubrids. The pythons I've kept previously would sometimes be pissy about it if it wasnt hot enough, but I only have one childrens python at the moment and shes such a glutton I could probably feed her anything as long as it wasnt frozen solid.
As long as they have a good basking spot to go toast and digest on, having the mouse itself be warm isn't really important barring a picky spoiled little noodle. In the case I do need a warm one, I usually take one of the large ceramic dishes I use for giving the Florida kings a big soaking pool, pour some hot water in from the electric kettle, then put the mouse in the bottom of the solo cup and hold it down in the water for a bit till it warms up but not too hot. I use my laser temp gun to make sure it's not above 85-90 at most. That was always plenty warm to perk up attention from the more picky pythons and boas, or a couple of the danger noodles I've had to foster like Lariat the whip snake and Illegal Bob the tree viper. They preferred their meals properly toasty as well, though Lariat would take it cold if I shook it enough.
And honestly most of the pythons would too, it's pretty rare to find one who is fussy about temps, they are more about smell in my experience. Speaking of smell, I know some of the noodles tend to be a little picky about an over washed cheeseboy, but I've found that if you dust regularly with vitamin powder, they start associating the food with that scent, and let me tell you, damp vitamin powder has a unique smell. So when I feed without dusting every other week, anyone who gives me fuss gets a tiny tap of it just to get the smell on the mouse. Though most have no issue taking their meal with or without. Keep in mind though that most of my collection is hognoses, florida kings, a pair of apalachicolas, a honduran milk, and a childrens python. Hoggies can be picky at times, Im pretty lucky that mine are not, but the rest of these guys? Scaley garbage disposals, every one of them. I could probably cut a chunk off a porkchop and they would jump on it like it was the fattest mouse they ever saw. I know several of them will take thawed fish fillets, and quail chicks are certainly on the menu across the board. Reptilinks with frog and quail are also univerally a hit with these ravenous boogers.
Man what Im sayin is I got a lot of reptiles, and had a ton over the years, especially in my rescue and fostering days, and basically anything at room temp is gonna be fine for the vast majority of snakes. They really aren't usually that picky (barring a few more problematic individuals and specific species) as long as their healthy and happy with their environment. Getting babies on to mice can be a challenge sometimes, but once they know the mice are food? Yeah, a lukewarm one isnt gonna upset most.
I specifically use two recycled take-out containers for thawing. If they start going like your red Solo cups, I swap 'em out for a new one of the exact same type.
It helps, except for the case of a drunk person pawing around in the dark and subsequently palming a mouse, but it's hilarious when that happens (no harm, he's a good sport). The frantic hand-washing 🤣
Yep, I used those till I moved to a rural area where they have basically no takeout. So solo cups it is!
We use what we got! Also, I appreciate very much that I am not the only person who washes solo cups to reuse. I feel a bit more sane, thank you kind stranger 😅
Are you kidding? Half my leftover containers and hu I I'd hides are washed takeout and cheap so called disposable stuff. I hate wasting all that plastic.
Same!! I wash and keep everything and keep reusing or repurposing as much as I can. I hate tossing stuff in the landfill.
Yeah I really need to start working on getting a 3D printer version of a lot of common use disposable items and then getting my hands on one of those ovens that can re extrude after melting the PLA to recycle it into spooled again.
I have a scooper that gets washed by itself. And a container that is labeled in big black letters MICE THAWING
Omg I feel you.
I used an older toothbrush to remove dog poop from sneaker treads.
I put it in a specific place. I never used it.
Until one day I did. (I have a memory issue due to severe stress. )
I used three different mouthwashes (husband like one. I like a different one. And we tried a third but neither of us liked it.) I then brushed my teeth 599 times!!!!
Brushing your teeth after that feels like it defeats the purpose of the mouthwash...
Lololol I was so gagged. And not in a good way!
To be fair, if your dishwasher isn't properly sanitizing it, then your dishwasher sucks. The machine shop I worked for used a dishwasher for sanitizing our parts before we got a proper station set up, and it always did the job (just inefficiently).
I use silicone gloves and vacuum cleaner- after removing the sneks of course.
slurp noodle
Lol! I have a mug I defrost rats in, and it's accidentally gone through the dishwasher and been put away with regular dishes... of which there are multiple of the same mug 🤣 I try not to think about it too much, a poop spoon might send me over the edge haha!
ITT: Reasons you can't eat at everybody's house
i labelled my bearded dragon's poop spoon for this very reason :)
So, how much do you believe in your dishwasher? It should boil at 250 or so for enough time to do the job.
It won’t be enough to stop spores but should do most bacteria
My condolences 😔✌️