Thank you for asking - lol I am glad to explain myself on this issue becuase I believe its very important. Please if you can read the more recent post by Kathy Love about the housing question. She says exactly what I meant to say, but I will explain myself. I think this issues are the main problem (or at least my issues with it.)



Anyway,



To say "I dont feed live rats." and "Live rats should not be fed to corn snakes." are not logically equivalent. So it not saying the same thing. Just becuase I dont do it doesn't mean that it is a bad idea to do it.



Its not so much that I advocate it as much as that I dont think you can say (at least not with this issue) that you can't do it.





>To me this is not an opinion, but a fact of good husbandry to >not feed your animals live or to keep more than one per >container! It is not OK to feed live, period. Because accidents >do happen, that is why they are called accidents. However, by >eliminating a factor for accidents, we eliminate accidents.



I think this is incorrect. It is not a fact. Many people have success maintaining multiple corns per enclosure. Many people have success with feeding live rats. (Even Kathy Love says corns are very adept at killing rats and rarely get hurt...its in the book). So you are basing your reason on a smaller number of accidents. But I doubt this is true - people with one corn snake in one enclosure who feed frozen pinkies can do very stupid things. And to say it is less likely they will make a mistake is factually not provable. Now to the other quote you used, because I hope this will tie everything in...





>And what is the reasoning behind this statement: "Anyway, I >don't know - it just bothers me when people don’t say true >things (or at least clearly qualify that they are stating their >opinion). Especially on an online forum like this where people >come to read to learn."



You cant make blanket statements. (

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