I agree too - I personally dont like the risk. I once fed my snake a small mouse live and when it coiled, the head was pinned against the body witht mouth opened around the snake. I was very worried. The mouse tried to bite, but it didnt penetrate the scaled. But I was so nervous that 99% of the time I dont feed live. And honestly I would never feed a live rat becuase they are huge and I think in the rare event that the rat bit the snake I think it could be devastating.



But I dont think its a stupid thing to do. I just dont want to do it. They do eat them in the wild, and even in captivity they are successful at eating them. Like I said before Kathy mentions many examples in her book of people that only feed live and dont have problems. She says one reason people do is to excercise the snake - which actually makes sense to me.





I actually do have two corns that are housed together. I also have corns that are housed seperate. I have never had a problem with either case. In fact the ones that are together always hide in the same spot. I have foudn this to be true of any snake in captivity. This is perplexing to me becuase everyone says snakes are not social. But you could have 30 hides in a huge enclosure and they will hide together. Sorta off topic but very strange. Even 11' anacondas - and when the tub is inconvenient

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=267531,268178.



But yea, many people do it successfully with no problems at all.



Anyway I think we finally understod each in my last post, and we are both happy, but I guess these are just some afterthoughts. LOL.



This has been a rare good experience on this topic for me.

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