Don’t laugh - things may get creative for people too if President Retard’s famine occurs 🤪
My wife purchases bags of frozen "pinkies" for her small snakes (garter/boa). When they get larger, she purchases live pinkies at the pet shop. Some of the garters are nearly ready for "fuzzies". The ball python and corn snake can handle live adult mice.
We can probably raise our own mice for the small number of snakes. The two cats and 7 dogs eat significantly more, so we've been buying ahead in anticipation of supply problems. We had been able to buy 3 x 40 lb bags of dog food from Costco until 2 weeks ago. Costco has a 1 bag limit now.
There’s a part of the book “Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat where he describes seeing wolves apparently eating nothing but mice for extended periods. As an experiment, Mowat lived solely on mice for a time to see if it’s possible for a large mammal to survive on such a diet. He needed to eat the entrails along with the meat to get sufficient fat, as I recall.
There are a few recipes in the book.