I know that you are talking primarily about people breeding their snakes.

> With the years myself and you have been doing this i am sure we both see more snakes that do not live long because of weekly or bi-weekly feedings. Some make it. Most don't live long and healthy lives. So which is the better route? On a public <

I certainly have to yeild on this to folks with more experience like FR etc. But as a person that has helped out twith a local nature center where the snakes weren't bred and were fed a weekly diet, I saw many of those animals live in excess of 18 to 20 years. Same with folks that have had Milks and Kings they occassionally bred but mostly kept as pets. My experience is that most folks simply change focus after a 5 or 10 years and get risd of their animals and there are always going to be the folks who don't take good care of their animals and cram them into dirty little cages. It's unfortunate but many of us have seen it. Those animals at the nature center also lived 20 years or so on corn cob! guess no one told them they would die of impaction from it! LOL

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