IF THE FEEDERS FOR THE SNAKES ARE THAWED SHE HAS TWO OPINIONS. FEED HER SNAKE depending on how long the freezer was not running OR THROW THE FEEDERS AWAY THE SNAKES WILL GET SICK

By my music class hut there was a light pole. By said light pole was the frozen body of a very obviously dead rodent. Soon the snow began to melt. As did frozen rodent. I never smelt anything like it in my life.

not all snakes have fangs only the ones with venom have them. the rest just have little sharp teeth. and i have had this happen to me before. depending on when you catch it, its not that bad a smell...

I thought snakes kill their live rodents not eat them already dead.

how about a apology hug instead? XD I give free hugs C: lol anyone want one? :D haha

OP here--had to get an FML account to comment. To my roommate's credit, she had the mess all cleaned up by the time I got home--only the smell was left. I can't blame her for having snakes, either, since I moved into the apartment knowing she had them, and being ok with it. Can't say I'm too thrilled with her storing the rats in the freezer, but they do have to eat, and I least I was able to put my foot down on her thawing them in the oven (seriously, WTF?). A couple of people asked why she was feeding her snakes dead rats. Apparently, it's pretty controversial among snake owners, but most people feel it's inhumane to feed live. You'd be surprised, but feeding live is actually very dangerous to the snake--since the feeder rats can't run away (being in a tank with a snake), they fight instead. My roommate has a rescued snake whose last owners fed it live--the poor thing is covered with scars. Snakes can die that way. @18--Sadly, I know exactly what rotted snake smells like...*sigh* Roommate got ahold of a dead Burmese python (it was not a pet), and wanted to preserve the skeleton for educational purposes, but didn't get the right beetles ahead of time. I said there was absolutely no way it was coming in the house, but she did, once (to try a different method of getting the flesh off the bones). It was...unbelievable. Had no idea something could smell that bad. That was actually just 2 weeks ago, and the smell only just got out when the rat incident happened. I'm too tolerant, methinks. She's what you might call eccentric. @12--Thanks for the advice about the vaccuum sealer :) She said she'd thought of it, but can't afford it right now.

totally agree with you OP about it being dangerous for the snake! I have 2 that will only eat live no matter what i do so i have to watch them very carefully. But yes for all of you who wanted to know about why was she feeding her snakes dead rats, it is a huge controversy with snake owners, we argue about it constantly and it always boils down to the same thing. its safer for the snake for them to eat dead, most of the times snakes will eat dead as long as its warm in the long run its also cheaper and easier to keep cuz with frozen you can find them online and buy them in bulk.

i thought snakes won't eat anything if it's not alive?

That sux

All of this is awful.