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02-02-13, 02:05 AM
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Snake swallows food alive.
Hello all, First time posting so hopefully this is the correct place. I have a Mexican Black Kingsnake, he is about 22-24 inches in length. Whenever I fed him (thawed)frozen food, he would always very gently take the pinkie, would never bite it unless he had the head and would not strike. Today I fed him what I assume is his first live pinkie, and it worried me. At first he bit it and held it. After a minute, he sort of half constricted it. He held it in a bear hug for about 5 minutes, then released it. He let it go and the pinkie started walking around. Then he went face to face and bit it on the head. He proceeded to eat it alive. Luckily the defensive capabilities of the pinkie is not good but when I upgrade to mice, he may become fatally scratched internally. Even after he had the head and upper body down, the feet were still kicking and struggling. Should I continue to feed live pinkies and hope he learns to kill first, or stick to frozen?
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02-02-13, 06:42 AM
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Village Idiot
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
There is no reason to feed live if he will take frozen thawed.
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02-02-13, 06:44 AM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
There is no reason to feed live if he will take frozen thawed.
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I concur.. Please continue feeding pre-killed food.
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02-02-13, 06:45 AM
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Diesel the pumpkin killer
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
^ agree.. No reason to feed live. If for some reason you can't get frozen then pre-kill the food for him.
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02-02-13, 08:59 AM
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Non Carborundum Illegitimi
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
^^^^ what they all said^^^^
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02-02-13, 10:31 AM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
Live food is an unnecessary danger, easily avoided.
If your snake has been taking dead ones, there is literally no reason to switch it to live.
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02-02-13, 11:03 AM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by D70challenger
Hello all, First time posting so hopefully this is the correct place. I have a Mexican Black Kingsnake, he is about 22-24 inches in length. Whenever I fed him (thawed)frozen food, he would always very gently take the pinkie, would never bite it unless he had the head and would not strike. Today I fed him what I assume is his first live pinkie, and it worried me. At first he bit it and held it. After a minute, he sort of half constricted it. He held it in a bear hug for about 5 minutes, then released it. He let it go and the pinkie started walking around. Then he went face to face and bit it on the head. He proceeded to eat it alive. Luckily the defensive capabilities of the pinkie is not good but when I upgrade to mice, he may become fatally scratched internally. Even after he had the head and upper body down, the feet were still kicking and struggling. Should I continue to feed live pinkies and hope he learns to kill first, or stick to frozen?
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He would never learn to kill them. A lot of snake species eat live prey. Kings and milks are generally one that have no problem doing so. Stick to dead.
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02-02-13, 08:37 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
You are all hippies.
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02-02-13, 09:13 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by BallP
You are all hippies.
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Great first post....
Most of us have been called worse.
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Last edited by infernalis; 02-02-13 at 09:35 PM..
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02-02-13, 09:21 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
There is no reason to feed live if he will take frozen thawed.
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This.
Live scares me so much
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02-02-13, 09:22 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by BallP
You are all hippies.
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One love brotha
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02-02-13, 11:05 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by BallP
You are all hippies.
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Wait...what?
That's stupid. Don't be stupid.
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02-02-13, 11:31 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by BallP
You are all hippies.
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I like whenever people apply logic to situations like these, they're called "hippies" or my favourite, "PETA followers".
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02-03-13, 01:13 AM
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Village Idiot
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
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Originally Posted by BallP
You are all hippies.
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Because we realise that feeding live is an unnecessary risk and a hassle to boot? Or maybe you are just a small child that still thinks it's cool to watch an animal struggle for its life? Hmmm. Makes you kinda wonder.
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02-04-13, 09:22 PM
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Re: Snake swallows food alive.
One more for feeding frozen thawed. Also, when I've had snakes that were fed prey much smaller than they needed, I've noticed a decreased tendency to make an effort to kill their prey.
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