Don,

Getting a stick and stuffing hotdogs down a snake will make it healthy and work to.



Eeven though this topic had NOTHING to do with bonding think about this.



If a snake is regulated to living in an plastic empty box by itself for its entire life. would "you" (being the snake) , rather have at least one natural thing going on in that box? Wouldn't it be better to keep pairs or multiple snakes together than just one in an empty box FOR LIFE with shavings and plastic? It is a good thing a snake cannot reason out it dismal existence and by adding multiple snakes "bonding" it has at least one natural element that it does in nature. And they do seem to like it as far as I can tell from the single specimens i kept. Bonded kingsnakes living together just do better in habit and breeding. That is especially true when your snake stress out when introduced and remeoved due to the threat of one eating the other during breeding season WHEN YOU decdide to put them together.



Snakes bond in nature. And in my collection the ones who are bonded seem less nervouse than the ones kept by themselves. Also introducing non-bonded snakes cause more stress.



But again, this topic was on feeding larger prey and more frequent meals. Something I know that you do unless it takes you 3-4 years to raise up neonate kingsnakes-which i doubt.



As far as feeding muttiple mice and letting the snake take its 'fill' i am sure that is something you do as well.



Don, next time you post don't let the 3 amigos sway you so much. They are a little upset that i posted something different from their opinion. This thread had to do with the OP original request on feeding. The bonding was just a attempt to make them seem more accomplished and make me appear as an irresponsible herpetoculturist. LOL! But the truth is I do it that way and it seems more natural. But if you want to keep snakes solated and stick hotdogs down their throat they will still be healthy and breed-



I prefer to make it as natural as possible by giving heat choices as far apart as possible,also.. Allow snakes to eat when they want AND to BOND with mutiple animals year round so they don't stress during breeding season. I think my approach is better than what others have been doing since the 70's.
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