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.

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