Can baby pet King Snakes eat anything besides baby mice ?

Question

It is about 10 inches long and smaller around than a ladies pinky finger. Hopefully they can eat something else besides little mice. Can it be weened to like lizzard pellets ???

Answer 1

Try these sausages. They are much safer and more humane than mice:
http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/zoological/reptilediet.html

Answer 2

No-they need pinkies or small lizards. If you are squeemish you really should have thought of that before you bought a snake. Please either feed it what it needs or take it back to the store or give/sell it to someone who can feed it properly. A snake is a snake-and it must eat snake food, which equals mice. Maybe you could trade your snake for a lizard.

I'm not trying to be harsh or judgemental, but it's important that you feed your snake what it needs and not starve it to death trying to make it into something that its not.

Answer 3

My kids have 4 king snakes.. three they purchased at a reptile show and one my son caught in Mendocino Co.California. The wild snake eats frogs, mice, blue belly lizards. the kings they purchased eat mice only. Plan on letting the wild one go this summer.. Pretty good size.. and still really wild. .

Answer 4

no not lizard pellets. You can feed it pinhead crickets, mealworms, waxworms, all kinds of bugs that are small enough to fit in its mouth.

You can get a can of 250 crickets(any size) for $5, and a can of 500 mealworms(any size) for $5 at FlukerFarms.com.

Best place for herp food. Remember, it does need to eat mice and rats when older, and keep feeding the mice while feeding other things too.... Good luck with your baby!

Answer 5

They require flesh. It can be mice, frogs, fish, lizards, other snakes, chicks, etc. One word of caution, if you decide to feed your snake things other than mice, make sure you can guarantee a steady supply of that food. I have a friend that fed his milk snake a small snake & it refused all other foods & nearly starved to death before he released it back to the wild. Before that, the snake would eat fuzzies & minnows & was really easy to keep. No way on the lizard pellets,BTW.