>>Quite frankly I was upset when I read Amands's post.



Me, too. To the point where I said to myself "You bleeding idiot!"



>>Your post says: "It isn't a good idea to feed 2 snakes in the same enclosure". That's incorrect. "You DON'T feed 2 snakes in the same enclosure". I don't know how many times I've typed that, but I'm just one of many that have.



Absolutely, I agree. Under no circumstances, ever, is it okay to feed two snakes together in one container. This was the first lesson I ever learned about keeping them, and that was a long time before I found the forums, and even before I had a book about keeping them.



The first snakes I purchased (in 1993) were a pair of adult black rat snakes. The day I first saw them in the store, I fell in love with them. A couple of days later, I went to visit, and the girls told me that they'd just almost lost the female. They'd fed them in the same cage, and both latched onto the same mouse. The girls weren't even watching them after they had put the mice into the cage. About 15 minutes later, one of them checked on them, and found the female halfway down the male's throat. They were able to get her out, and she was still alive, but barely.



Fortunately, both recovered. But they were lucky.



>>You say: "Some larger corns could eat a small rat no problem". Incorrect again. "Live small rats can injure a snake NO PROBLEM".



Even mice can injure a snake. REAL PROBLEM! The only live prey that is ever safe to feed, is newborn pinkie prey, PERIOD.



>>Your post leans more towards "It's O.K." rather than "You don't do it" I'm sorry if I've read or taken it wrong, but it's not the time to say "it's O.K." after what happened to the corn snake.



Again, you're right on the mark. It isn't okay, ever. The first post could have been more gentle, but it certainly wasn't inaccurate. There's no point in sugar-coating the truth. If a person really doesn't want his/her snake to come to grief, then he/she simply has to be prepared to follow the good advice offered by experienced keepers.

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