All snakes are carnivores and eat their prey whole. Some snakes eat rodents or birds while others eat insects or fish. Some even eat other snakes. This guide will give you all the information you need on feeding your snake.

Important information: all prey should be offered dead. Live prey will not only suffer but can also harm your snake. Plus it’s not nice watching an animal be killed right in front of you. 

What can snakes eat?

Pet snakes usually eat small rodents such as mice or rats but they can also eat animals like:

• Fish

• Chicks

• Insects

• Amphibians such as frogs or toads

• Other reptiles such as small geckos and snakes

• Eggs

• Larger mammals such as rabbits

It’s important that you do your research on what you can feed to your snake.

For example a kingsnake’s dietary needs will differ from a corn snake’s.

However, no matter what your snake eats, make sure their food is high quality and free of diseases. 

The prey item must have been in good health before it was humanly euthanised.

Remember these animals were living things as well, make sure you support the people that gave them a good, healthy life and a quick and painless death.