I personally know of two incidents (and another was just posted here a couple of weeks ago) involving stunning the rodent before feeding and in all three cases the snakes ended up eating the animal alive and the rodent woke up and tried to claw it's way out.

That's scary!!
Looks like it's either live or F/T for me.
Thanks for that info!
Ken
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0.5 Normal Ball Pythons (Norma, Nova, Nala, Nimeesha, Nyoka)
1.1 Argentine B/W Tegus (Draco and Drucilla)
0.1 Columbian B/W Tegu (Diablo)
1.0 Black Throat Monitor (Razor)
1.0 Desert Tortoise (Tubbs) from Tortoise Rescue
1.0 Boxer (Shadow)
0.1 Feline (CK)
1.0 Memory of my Redtail Boa (Mo) which passed away after 28 years

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• not to kill! to paralize! but how? - mmmthasgood1, Fri Jul 22 22:26:02 2005
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