Feeding Inferno, my male captive bred Californian red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis) a frozen thawed mouse! I don’t feed my garter snakes rodents frequently but they makeup part of their diet rotation with things such as frog legs, fish, earthworms and chicken hearts. Isn’t he stunning?! Again, please note that this mouse wasn’t alive. Snakes need to eat too and this is no different than a human defrosting chicken to cook and eat, if anything the human has a choice, the snak