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RobertPreston
at Fri Jun 27 13:34:05 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RobertPreston ]
The vet made this suggestion in reference to feeding really big snakes really big prey items. He said the best way to get really big prey items inexpensively was to use fresh road kill. I would have never considered doing this had the vet not suggested it. A fellow herper who used the same vet fed his burmese dead rats that he trapped and killed himself when the local pet shops didn't have any jumbo rats. There was a time when the local shops only had mice and small rats, and the burm was in that stage when she wouldn't take rabbits but would tear up big rats. Without a supply of captive rats, he started trapping big rats at a nearby abandoned house. I now own this snake (bought her from him in '95), and she is a 14 foot, 180 pound animal that is healthy as a horse. To my knowledge, that's the only time she has ever eaten anything other than domestic rodents. I have never fed her any; as she has aged, she has quit taking dead stuff and only wants live rabbits.
RP
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- Feeding Burms Wild Prey - RobertPreston, Fri Jun 27 09:22:09 2003
- RE: Feeding Burms Wild Prey - meximullet02, Fri Jun 27 11:09:18 2003
- RE: Feeding Burms Wild Prey - JDP, Fri Jun 27 11:36:40 2003
 RE: Feeding Burms Wild Prey - RobertPreston, Fri Jun 27 13:34:05 2003
- Dude you Have issues - Rottenweiler9, Fri Jun 27 11:43:08 2003
- Here are MY thoughts on this,..... Sorry, very long post..... - BrianSmith, Fri Jun 27 15:12:57 2003
- In a word, "No," Here's Why.... - tango, Fri Jun 27 16:39:08 2003
- Ok... my actual experience... - meretseger, Fri Jun 27 17:56:37 2003
- Lots of opinionated people w/out any evidence.... - Carmichael, Fri Jun 27 18:56:17 2003
- It's not a snake, but... - Ryan Shackleton, Sun Jun 29 00:07:14 2003
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