I agree with other posters about taping the feeding process. But for those that have never dealt with large snakes, don't critisize for feeding live rabbits or other prey items. I for one would prefer to feed prekilled to large constrictors as to avoid any potential injury to the snake but once the prey items and snakes get to a certain size, will it just made me uncomfortable to pre-kill the animals. For one, I used to own several very large retics (almost 20ft) that were fed on small goats (up to 25lbs). The humane way of pre-killing such an animal would be to seperate it's cervical collumn but the actual truth is the most humane way is to allow a finely tuned predator to do what nature intended. The prey almost instantly died when grabbed without the trauma of me trying to pre-kill it. I guarentee that live feedings are less stressful to the large prey animals than pre-killing.

hey what's worse for the hobby, a person filming a naturalistic experience or others saying that those people shouldn't be allowed to own snakes? I wonder which is used to fuel legislation. I can hear it now "Even the people that keep these animals don't think others should, we need to protect these animals from everyone and protect everyone from these animals."
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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