Corn Snake Catching Mouse

My corn snake, Cornelius, catching a mouse. This one didn't get too far; sometimes Cornelius has to chase after runners. The snake lives on the screened in porch 9 months out of the year. It gets plenty of exercise climbing the chairs and trees on the porch. And yes, it always eats live mice because it's a snake, and that's what snakes eat.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Snake
• mouse
• corn snake
• rat snake
• snake eating
• live mouse
• snake feeding
• hamster
• snake vs. mouse

[MultiSkyehigh]

There sopose to be dead n frozen b4 u feed them u can get fined for this shit! Ah RSPCA I work the fines are big.

[FRdemo9]

@MultiSkyehigh 1. You should thaw the mice before you feed

2. There is no fine in the US for feeding my snake what it would eat in the wild.

3. I understand your concern, but unlike some snakes who are locked in a 10 gal. cage and dont know what side of the mouse is up, Cornelius lives outside, climbs in trees, and is one mean mouse catching machine.

[snortonhorton15]

ur corn snake is awesome. how long did it take him to get that big?

[FRdemo9]

@snortonhorton15 Its between 6 and 8 years old. When it was tiny I kept it in a huge homemade screened in cage (mistake) and it would hide in the base of a potted plant so I couldn’t feed it as much as I wanted. This may have slowed its growth early on, but it is normal sized now. Its right around 4 ft and I cant tell if it is still growing or not because it has been slow and steady growth. I feed it a mouse every 6-7 days in the summer; although it would eat as many as it was given.

[snortonhorton15]

@FRdemo9 and what kind of corn is yours? it has some really cool colors.

[FRdemo9]

@snortonhorton15 ill try to make another video when i get a chance and include some pictures of when it was tiny. Its patterns have changed a lot. I dont know how long it will take to grow. they range between 2 and 6 ft full grown, i would guess 3.5 years to become full grown if kept warm in the winter and well fed. but like i say, mine is at least 6 years old and i think it may still be slowly growing. if you want it to grow fast, give it a warm and cold side to the cage so it can digest

[TheKraken21]

While I am not against live feeding, do not act like all snakes only eat live food.. My two year old corn strikes just as hard on a f/t'd mouse as yours did on this live one. We are to improve the image of the reptile community, not tarnish it by making our pets look like blood-thirsty killers. Nice video though and a beautiful corn.

[TheSuperzack666]

this is the same color of my corn snake lucifer :) i cant wait for him to get that big hes only 2 years old and pretty small

[Benderalbino]

dude the mouse walks right up to it like it wants to say hello to the snake dumbass

[metaladdict7]

nice strike. i have a corn snake named cornelius too. hes about 22 inches. i fed him his first mouse today. vicious strike like this video

[snortonhorton15]

im getting a four foot corn on the 26th