I'll try here too. I love the thought of feeding feeder animals higher quality foods and a good variety. With that said I don't like feeding live prey to a snake. Years ago in 93 I imported a pair of blood pythons. These were evil animals that didn't want to look at anything but live prey. I felt I was lucky and just happy to have a wild caught pair eating live rats right away. So I left it at that. The male was around 4 feet long. One night in feeding, he came flying out of his water tub and grabbed the rat no differently than he had 4 or 5 times before. The only difference this time is that while he was constricting the rat (unfortunately I didn't watch the process), the rat chewed a nickel sized hole in the snakes neck, thru the muscle and into vertebrae. The snake continued to constrict and then swallowed the rat but sustained some major damage. From that day on I do not feed live animals unless absolutely necessary and if I do have to feed live I don't leave the snake unattended. Hope that helps. All it takes is one time and you may not have a live snake to come back to.

Jeremy
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Jeremy Pierce
Shade Tree Exotics
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