:? Okay everybody,
Lest you all think I am some kind of freaking monster :wink: I will admit that I am kind of behind the curve here on feeding pre-killed prey to my snakes. I hate to sound ignorant but I just don't really know how to go about this. I have tried feeding thawed out mice and rats in the past and my snakes would barely even sniff at them. I thawed them out good and even heated them under a lamp to body temp but it still did not elicit a feeding response. A couple of times I had the body wall of the rodent break open which was nasty and sort of put me off on doing this. I have heard all these tales of whacking rodents but it sounds horrible - I got to put them in a bag and bash them against the wall ???!!!! :shock: :roll: or I have heard of using a ruler and popping their spine ???!!! :shock: geez....I have been bit by rats and mice and I sure don't like the idea of trying to kill a full grown rat by popping its head off or something. I don't feel like getting bit ya know?

I see what you all mean by the dangers of live prey though. It has occured to me that now that my BPs are starting to take rats that it is probably a lot more dangerous to the snake than a mouse. Do you not agree???

I appreciate any comments on this from all of you... :mrgreen:

EyeLashViper