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Originally Posted by moshirimon
I think certain snakes know better than others. my retic would hold the rat until it was dead. my boa will hold it for hours as if she's just making sure it will be dead
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I have some that do each. IMO, I think alot of it has to do with what the animal has been conditioned to eat as well. I have a few animals that I feed f/t and live to....it doesn't matter to them if it's really alive or dead, the seem to hang onto their food for about the same amount of time. (these are my king, boa, and two royals)
My two dumerils and carpet were eating live before I got them. Most of their meals are f/t now (I've fed live a couple of times waiting for a new shipment of feeders to come in) and each of them will hold onto their food for a long time as if it were live. (these are also adult animals BTW).
My burms have always eaten f/t, with an occasional live one thrown in when waiting for a new shipment to come in (I can count on one hand how many times each have taken live and still have digits left over). My bigger burm will constrict her f/t for a couple of minutes, as if to make sure it's not alive and my smaller burm will pretty much start eating off the tongs without attempting to "kill" her food most times. The couple of times I have fed her live, she held onto it for a long time, I'm assuming her way of making sure it's dead. I also had switching issues with her when she was younger and was practically hand fed for about 6 months (she's a little over a year old now).
You can take my feeding experiences and observations with my animals and apply them to the subject accordingly.
Also, has any noticed a difference in what their animals eat (f/t vs p/k or live) according to that animal's feed mode? I've noticed that my carpet's feed mode isn't what it used to be when I first got her. I'm not sure if it's because I've been feeding her better meals on a more regular basis than her previous owners, as well as feeding f/t now, so she's not quite as hungry like she once probably was. I'm not sure how relevant it would be to this thread but thought I'd throw that out there as well.
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