Your post and the second reply to your post are the reasons people on insist on f/t (frozen/thawed) and p/k (pre-killed).



I'm not an expert or anything, but I stopped feeding live a while ago. One day I had a fiesty rat as it were, so I got worried about the damage it could to my burm, and I broke it's neck.



The only reason I don't use f/t, is because I have a local per store that is only 2 miles from my house and I can just go pick something up, have them break it's neck for me, and just take home and feed. I don't need bags and bags of rats in my freezer.



Its safer for your snake, it's the most humane for the rats and I believe someone before says, it trains your snake to not get use to moving things as food. The last thing you want is your burm one day eating up your friends small dog or something.





Richard

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• Live prey items??? - rich-k, Wed Mar 17 09:49:39 2004
• RE: Live prey items??? - Raven01, Wed Mar 17 14:55:49 2004
• RE: Live prey items??? - athos_76, Wed Mar 17 16:31:37 2004
• I used to think the same way...... - Raven01, Thu Mar 18 09:13:35 2004
• RE: I used to think the same way...... - rich-k, Thu Mar 18 12:06:42 2004
• RE: I used to think the same way...... - CaptainHook2, Thu Mar 18 12:32:16 2004
• RE: I used to think the same way...... - rich-k, Fri Mar 19 09:32:11 2004
• RE: I used to think the same way...... - CaptainHook2, Fri Mar 19 11:09:45 2004
• RE: I used to think the same way...... - rich-k, Fri Mar 19 19:34:48 2004
• I used to also until... - Sybella, Thu Mar 18 21:28:25 2004
• So what did you do.... - AnacondaKeeper, Fri Mar 19 20:19:49 2004
• RE: So what did you do.... - toddbecker, Fri Mar 19 22:00:53 2004
• RE: So what did you do.... - lilroach56, Sat Mar 20 17:45:45 2004
• Parasites and bacteria are two very different things. np - Sybella, Sat Mar 20 22:04:09 2004
• thanks for pointing that out np - lilroach56, Sun Mar 21 17:56:43 2004
• RE: So what did you do.... - karizmaflip, Fri Apr 2 13:06:59 2004
• RE: So what did you do.... - Sybella, Fri Mar 19 23:05:34 2004
• RE: Live prey items??? - rsalib, Wed Mar 17 18:48:48 2004
• RE: Live prey items??? - CaptainHook2, Thu Mar 18 12:12:48 2004
• Feeding Live for your enjoyment is immature and irresponsible? - toddbecker, Thu Mar 18 17:03:53 2004
• RE: Feeding Live for your enjoyment is immature and irresponsible? - CaptainHook2, Fri Mar 19 11:03:55 2004
• From your posted picture, I'd say your snake is just right. : - ) np - Sybella, Fri Mar 19 23:15:39 2004
• Solved.... - AnacondaKeeper, Fri Mar 19 20:34:46 2004