Ball Python cut

[End Times]

I think everyone got a little too "emotional" on this one. If you're going to own multiple snakes, feeding live is an inevitability. Some snakes WILL NOT take F/T or P/K and that's all there is to it. I have a male ball that will touch nothing buy live, adult mice. And very recently, I've just added two '05 females to my collection. I have yet to feed them, but was told they are taking live mice at this time. Will I feed them live? You bet. They're too small at this point for me to feel comfortable to take on the F/T battle. I will offer F/T, but if they decline I will not hold out. They'll get their live. Maybe when they are bigger I will be more diligent in the task of getting them to F/T.

[Bluzmn59]

Originally Posted by boidboi

this is about the fasination about watching snakes eat i feed all my snakes F/T but i use tongs and put the mouse/rat around so the snake has to strike at itand in most cases in coils around just as it would if you fed live but this way both humane for the rat and reptile so every one wins

and for the guy that was talk about the serial killers reptiles 4 me i believe
just because people find the way snakes eat interesting doesnt mean that there deranged pyschos or serial killers

I use the tong method as well. I really like to watch them strike and throw coils - it is fascinating. I do not believe in feeding live, though, so I guess I escape being a serial killer.

[-okapi-]

For the snakes cut, keep it clean and it should heal fine. If you use a substrate besides newspaper, it would be a good idea to switch to that, or cover the cut with a piece of gauze and a little tape.

For the people attacking Justin0:
I dont think she over reacted, I think she has good pet keeping ethics.

Its just as "fun" to watch a python eat a F/T prey item, they do the same exact thing as if it was alive. No threat to python, parasites are killed, no unneccessary suffering, and besides, herpetologists frown upon feeding live prey unless it is 100% neccessary, which in some instances it is, but it doesnt sound like it in this situation. It sounds more like he likes to see things kill eachother.
Its people like him who give herp keepers a bad name (see the feeder thread by the rat breeder).

[reptiles4me]

What I said was a reaction to justin0 making the comment that the original poster was probably a serial killer for liking to watch his snake feed live. I never said that people who like to watch snakes eat, whether it be live or F/T, were serial killers. In fact I said I knew many people who liked to watch and weren't serial killers.