retic taking a pig

Live-most of the time. I always monitor my snakes when feeding. If the snake is not interested right away (easy to tell by its reaction to it) I take it out right away. I have never had any problems with live feeding in all the snakes I have/had. Always be there and take the prey out if the snake isn't interested. Feeding birds is fine though. They cannot really injure a snake. I have F/T sometimes, but I feel guilty feeding F/T. Now, I began and ended a 5 page argument about live on a different forum and there wasn't a single person there that listened to your points/opinions, but this forum if GREAT!

if you are extra careful and take precautions when feeding live, its ok but i just think that there is that chance that something will happen. the reason being is that my friend was feeding a live rat to his boa and when the boa struck, the rat i guess got angry or something and started going around and nipping the snake. i saw that and told my self that i wouldnt feed live unless i really really had to. thats just me though. we ended up taking the rat out and the snake didnt eat for a few weeks.

i think the post you just put up explains the part of the issue. that being that live is ok when precautions are taken. i know personnally that i take every precaution i can to be sure my guy is doing fine. and from what i have read on the site, correct me if i am wrong adam, he feeds live to his animals. i have seen pics of his collection and there is no way he would jeopardize the well being of such expensive snakes. not to say that my normal doesnt deserve the same care because he does and i try to give it to him, just an example. f/t, prekilled, or live w/e you wanna feed is fine, but they are all acceptable and safe methods of feeding when done right

That's exactly what I was thinking too Karma! The whole "My Evil Snake" title and the menacing music in the background. And you have to go out on a limb and say that most people are going to find a little pig cuter than a 30 foot python (I personally would go for the python).

I'll make a video called "My Evil Human" and show a bunch of people eating at Burger King with menacing music playing. :)

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I'll make a video called "My Evil Human" and show a bunch of people eating at Burger King with menacing music playing. :)

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:judge: :lmao: Hahahaha! Good one! You know, that could be really hilarious if done right!

Then you'd have men like my husband muttering about how "they didn't fight and claw their way to the top of the food chain to end up eating like bunnies!!!" Dang but that man o mine is a major carnivore! LOL (okay techinically an omnivore but you get the idea LOL)

~~Jo~~

im late on this one but i just wanna say that i didnt like the music playing. it made the snake look evil. other then that it was cool.

my view on feeding live is this; feeding live is fine as long as you monitor it and make sure no harm comes to your snake. people say "thats how nature intended it" but i dont believe that to be true. in nature the the prey would have the however much space they wanted to flee if it felt it was in danger but in captivity it's not like that. in captivity both the snake and the prey is in a confined space and if the rodent feels its in danger it will bite the snake because there is nowhere to go.

thats just my 2 cents.

That was a cool flick but the music was BAD and the I could have done w/o the view of the pigs butt.
As for the live feed debate, I have a hard time w/ my bp feeding so I asked Adam about feeding live and he said give it a try and my bp eats a whole lot better now than before.
As for the cat after the mice I have a cat and I keep my mice cage in a cabinet and so far she doesn't even know their there ( so far so good )
And I think mice are pretty stupid and dont even realize danger as I leave the mice in no more than 20-30 mins and I have seen them go right up to my bp nose to nose and never suspect a thing.
Also there have been times when Ozzy just wasn't hungry and I have looked over to find the mouse riding along on Ozzy's back as he moves from hide to hide:)

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Originally Posted by HadesBP18

I'll make a video called "My Evil Human" and show a bunch of people eating at Burger King with menacing music playing. :)

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Heehee, I agree with JLC. Although, "Super Size" has scary humans eating in it -- does that count?

The thing that always gets me about the "omg don't feed reptiles cute widdle mousy wousies! They must live free!" is that I don't hear anyone crying out to protect the lives of crickets and mealy worms from pet lizards and such...:confused:

did anyone else notice that that is two videos combined? watch carefully at the beginning, one of the retics takes the pig by the head, the other takes it near the rear.