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07-02-03, 07:32 AM
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Location: Chicago
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I can't believe this thread is still active.
We ALL have had tough feeding w/c Ball Pythons that "Only eat Live" I also have 4 BCIs that "Only eats Live" Also a Retic that was Only fed live and chewed. a Coastal Carpet Python, that "Only eats Live" Also had BCI babies. Nothing in my house eats Live!
Almost every snake in my house was supposedly a "Live Prey Only" feeder. Yet nothing in my house eats live rodents. Do I have some sort of magic spell that transforms them? Do I just have the right Mojo? I don't know.
Like Zoe said before send me your Ball Pythons that supposedly "wil Only eat live" and within 2 months I'll have them taking f/t. If there is a will there is a way. I'm not being errogant, it's just true.
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07-02-03, 07:59 AM
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Location: Pulaski, Virginia
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you don't know what other peoples snakes will eat, you have no room to talk about others peoples snakes like you know them personally...My BP is about 2 1/2 years old and he's been feed live all his life...i don't mean to be rude , but, you honostly think you can change that???
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07-02-03, 08:01 AM
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YES!!! I have gotten w/c adopted BPs that way too. That are adult, so I feel I'm pretty safe in my comments.
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07-02-03, 08:16 AM
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im just saying not all BP's are the same...some will just refuse...im not going starve my snake for the slight to no chance that they'll get bittin
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1.0 albino cali. king snake(Diego)1.0 0.0.1 Blue-Tongued Skink (Oz)1.0 western hoggie (Tiki)0.0.1 amel creamsicle corn (Leo)0.0.1
ssssoon to come...albino burmese python (2 days and counting)
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07-02-03, 08:22 AM
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Thats your choice. None of mine have ever starved. Also I'm sure all the people that ever had a post "the rat bit my snake , what do I do?" had the same thought of it being a slim to none chance it will happen to them. I would hope they wouldn't feed live to purposely harm their snake.
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07-02-03, 11:07 AM
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Location: Pulaski, Virginia
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Ed_r, im very sorry if i sounded rude...i just wanted to express my opinons, just like you were expressing yours...again very sorry if i sounded rude 
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1.0 albino cali. king snake(Diego)1.0 0.0.1 Blue-Tongued Skink (Oz)1.0 western hoggie (Tiki)0.0.1 amel creamsicle corn (Leo)0.0.1
ssssoon to come...albino burmese python (2 days and counting)
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07-10-03, 07:10 AM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Age: 61
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Very interesting thread.......
And a hot topic as well ..sort of like discussing politics or religion. Now I prefer to feed f/t for all of the reasons stated, but I had a dumerils boa once that was around a year when I got it and it also refused to eat f/t. I tried every thing I could think of , plus every thing others thought of. Up to and including the starve it out concept. Maybe I didn't try hard enough or mabe the snake was more stuborn than I. In the end I gave and it was bit by a mouse...and so now I felt horrible, irrisponsible and just bad all around. So I tried again, no luck this snake was stuck in its ways. That or I was just too stupid to figure out it's f/t feeding requisites. Either way I dont have that snake any more for other reasons .Just got back into herping and have a juvi ball. I know that it has been eating live before I got it in fact it ate the day before I purchased it. So now I'm back at the same point, this one doesn't like f/t either tried to feed it for the first time last night (f/t at my wifes demand and my pref.) and it didn't even seem interested. I'm not worried because I've only had the snake for a week and its not a abnormal situation for the first trial feeding anyway. But , I'm getting ready for round 2; reading over the posted articles as a refresher and being determind as this is a young snake that it WILL end up eating f/t as it is the best way to feed for many reasons.
BTW live feeding is NOT BAD just not as good , safe, humane? (come on if we were that humane we wouldn't have snakes in cages a mouse or other prey item must die for or snakes to eat period weather we or someone else kills it), or practical....
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07-21-03, 07:16 PM
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Location: california
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i am very sorry. i will now consider weather of not to feed live prey
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07-26-03, 04:38 PM
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Whoops
I guess you can't expose people without be threatened with slander
LOL Johnny Cochrane HHHHHHHHHHHHHHelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last edited by Selecta; 07-26-03 at 06:41 PM..
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07-26-03, 05:26 PM
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Location: Ottawa
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First off, I never said my mom was a reptile vet. I said she was a vet, and on occaision she does work with herps.
Second, I don't live with my mother.
Third, I was one of the first people to join this site. I couldn't have joined earlier because it didn't exist. Just because I only joined last year, it doesn't mean I haven't been keeping herps since I was 11. I never claimed to have the most experience in the world. And yeah I asked some newbie questions. We all start somewhere. Your point?
Selecta, it sounds more like you are following me around and replying to million-year old posts just to irritate me. I don't understand why, because I am never disrespctful and if I am, I do not mean to be and would gladly appoligize to anyone offended by what I've said. So honestly, what is your guff with me? If you have a personal problem, deal with it over PMs, don't try and slander me in public posts.
And lastly, I never called her a liar. I was getting a certain impression, and said so. I never said that how I thought was the way things were. in fact, I specified otherwise. Quote me where I said "You are a liar Neera."
Either get over your dislike of me, selecta, ignore it, or deal with it in PMs. Or keep responding to ancient posts in an attempt to insult me, though I am not quite sure of your intentions.
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07-26-03, 05:40 PM
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Whoops
I guess you can't expose people without be threatened with slander
LOL Johnny Cochrane HHHHHHHHHHHHHHelp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last edited by Selecta; 07-26-03 at 06:41 PM..
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07-28-03, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: hamilton, ontario, canada
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Kinda gross, but here's a story of my brother feeding a med. live rat to his 5.5 foot corn.
basically, my bro accidentally let the rat go free in the snakes cage (usually the snake bites and coils before the rat has a chance). well, the rat took a couple bites of the snakes tail... the snake whipped around, grabbed the rat by the head, and coiled so hard the rat spit up blood and lost an eyeball from the pressure! that was in a matter of seconds... she must have been really pissed off!!! since, my brother has switched to f/t.
cheers,
MIKE
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07-28-03, 02:38 PM
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Location: hamilton, ontario, canada
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i just went back and read this VERY long thread... and in my opinion some miscommunication occured. I think some people read the posts others wrote and assumed they were written with bad intentions, though I don't believe they were. I don't think Zoe was acting arrogant at all. Every time I ask her a question it's answered in a way that tells me she understands humility...so I'm not sure where that came from.
Oh well, this post took a very sharp turn on page 2 i believe...perhaps it's finally dead.
cheers,
MIKE
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