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wolf, lheene, the pinkie was a baby mouse. They're standard fare in the frozen section of the pet food aisle. Each one is $1.29, but considerably less in bulk, I understand. We heat some water, then with the pinkie in the plastic bag from the store, we immerse it into the water to thaw then warm the mouse. This is known as f/t feeding, frozen/thawed feeding. Eventually, he'll graduate to f/t hoppers, baby furry mice, then to f/t adults.
When I was young, we fed live rodents to our snakes. That is not considered a good idea any more. There is some risk to the reptile of being bitten, and with the kind of training from a hatchling to take f/t food, that risk is now zero. Of course it is much easier to just order up a bag of 25 or 50 mice than it is to keep a colony of feed animals in the house.
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