in my opinion alot of the people that post those videos on youtube are a threat to herpers like us. I saw a video on there of a guy feeding his water monitors rats, they started with a small one and then moved up to a big one that the monitor was having alot of trouble killing, i felt bad for both animals, the monitol deffinitly took some scratches and nips on the nose, and no mouse should have to go through what that one went through.

Its immature if you ask me. Yeah we all fed are first snake live prey, maybe even our first couple, but doing it when its not necissary is pointless in my mind, and i do critasize the ppl who feed live, not because of the poor mouse, but the poor snake, or in many cases the poor "expensive" snake. Anyone who has owned many snakes like me and fed live for an extended amount of time has most likely had their snake become the victum at some point or another. Yeah the mouse is gonna die rather its by constriction or in the freezer, but their's still no reason to endanger the snake.
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2.3 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Pastel Ball Pythons (NERD Line)
0.0.1 Water Monitors
1.1 Pastel Red Tailed boa Het. for Albino
1.1 Yellow Ackie Monitors
And Counting...

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