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hey everybody

I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried those T-Rex 'Snake Steak Sausages' on a king (or any snake really)... it seems like they might be a good supplimentary food source IF you can get a snake to take one.

There is a history of really good success with whole food items, such as mice, etc. And you want to offer something arificial that if lucky and I do mean lucky, is trying match a mouse in quality.

Your idea that its a suppliment is not real accurate. To suppliment is to add to. I would imagine these would subtract from. You may be better off calling these sausages an alternative food item.

I would thing there are far better alternate food items for kingsnakes, like birds, lizards, snakes, other types of rodents.

If rodents were hard to acquire and store, and this alternative was easy to acquire and store, then maybe there would be a need. But whole food items are far more widespread and easy to acquire.

Does it boil down to expense, mice can be purchased very inexpensively frozen. Of course that means you need a freezer. I can only hope you need a freezer for these sausages, because if you don't, then they are filled with preservatives. I hope this helps Cheers

The sausage food is not designed for the people that frequent these boards. They are designed for the kids that have to work on their parents for years to get anywhere near entertaining the idea of getting a reptile, much less a snake.

The soccer mom PETA, Sierra Club, ELF, members that don't want to hurt a teeny little vermin and are afraid of animal life in general don't want to have a little squeaking mouse dieing in their home as food for a slimy snake. An "alternative" food such as the sausages makes the whole idea more palatable.(no pun intended)

Yeah, i agree with both replies.

I initially thought maybe the sausages would have some kind of extra nutritional value, and i imagined maybe adding them to my snakes diet would be like adding a second viable food source. But in actuality, the sausages are simply ground mice minus the bones and hair... Lame. Actually, I didn't find a single positive review of them anywhere. Thanks for the replies.