SNEAKY SNAKE OWNER
My ten year-old son wanted gerbils, but I didn't want something that required a lot of care, and I was worried about the smell of gerbil litter, so we agreed on a snake. Those can handle some neglect, they stay put, so long as their container is escape-proof, and they don't need to be fed every day. I got him a little corn snake and an aquarium to house it and I agreed to let my son get the supplies for feeding, pleased to see him take responsibility. I (dumbly) assumed that they were fed 'snake pellets' or something like that, so I was shocked to see my son come back with a cage and a family of mice! He wants to raise the mice to feed the snake! Any advice for me? 345