First of all, if your snake is regurgitating meals on a regular basis, there is something wrong, maybe the temperatures of the enclosure, or the amount of food it gets, it has nothing to do with whether the prey was f/t or live.



Why? Because when Petco devidated from his natural pattern of hunting & stalking, turning him into a scavanger of dead flesh, they forgot that friendly bacteria were not being placed into his system - like they would in the wild.



PetCo is one of the worst places for a snake to be anyways, I'd never buy an overpriced, unhealthy snake from them(which they pretty much all are). One of the good things about getting a captive born snake over a wild caught snake, is that the captive born snake is less likely to have parasites and harmful bacteria(which for some reason you want your snake to be infested with bacteria).



Mice are mice, when live mice get frozen it's not like something disapears from the mouse's body(other than blood circulation and heartbeats lol), it's the same thing still.



Besides, it's the one thing we can let them do that they do in the wild. They love to stalk & constrict, let them!!



If you want to feed it how it would eat in the wild, why aren't you just feeding the king other snakes?? What do you think a cali king hatchling comes across more in the wild, snakes, or newborn mice? Snakes. So why aren't you feeding the snake what it would naturally eat, and just throw in all of those parasites and bacteria anyways that you want the snake to have.



Mike
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