Re: Rescued 2 abandoned BPs, what now?
the bitting was a most likey cause they stress figuer they been exposed to a wild ride or 3 before you got them, they were not given proper temps , proper place to hide, during that time
then you toss in all the new smells ontop of the moving around I be stressed too.
then suddenly your hand ( huge heat source comes at them I freak too thinknig I just became something's dinner. )
Re: Rescued 2 abandoned BPs, what now?
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rabernet
I'm sorry to hear that you had a personal bad experience. :(
We just don't ever want to become a forum that advocates that live is better than f/t or that f/t is better than live. We advocate that each keeper educates themselves on the different methods and then decides for themselves what works best for them.
I had zero experience when I got my first ball python and fed live. But I also did a lot of forum lurking before I got my first snake and read how to introduce live prey safely.
The OP decided that he was more comfortable with feeding f/t and that's awesome!
My only point in speaking up was so that others who may read this would have the counter information that live feeding isn't inherently dangerous when done correctly. Even IF I'd had 10 injuries in those 15K live feedings - that makes my personal risk of injury in my sample, .00066% - which is pretty darn low. :)
Alright, I'm sorry if it came off that I was saying one was way better than the other. It was just my opinion really and yeah since I'd had some problems with it I was just recommending it here.
