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at Wed Jul 24 14:03:00 2013 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Hi GHW, I would not hate anyone for what they do with their captives, as long as they are trying. This is only a hobby. Heck, I have friends that still kill snakes, even relatives.
I just think lose track of what they are doing sometimes and what they are doing it with. For instance in this case.
If you look at the animals and what they are, it will give you an idea of what IS NORMAL(to the animal) Once you understand what normal is, problem solving becomes possible or even easy.
What seems to be lacking is a basic understanding of what is normal.
Snakes all snakes, normally feed with gusto and aggressively. Therefore if an individual does not, you must understand something is wrong. Please understand, no more and no less. Something is wrong. That entertains the question of what is wrong.
You could entertain what you mentioned, like something happened in incubation. But seriously while possible, its of no help and does no good for you or your animal. There is nothing you can do, so you don't do anything. The chances of that occurring and the animal surviving a month are so low, its not worth thinking about. So two strikes against that.
The reality is, Mental security and physical security, are the areas 99.9% of feeding problems occur. So I would look in these areas. THe problem in this forum and many others is, people do not look to the animals for the answer, they tend to look for a recipe from others for the answer. They look at these things as rules, when in fact, they are only guidelines. In otherwords, if it don't work change it. And it is that simple. The animals do vary, so how come husbandry doesn't. In most cases, husbandry is applied as if the animals are a object, non living with no behavior. But they do have behavior and individual behavior. End of part 1
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RE: maintenance feeders? - FR, Wed Jul 24 14:03:00 2013