feeding live rats

[Robonarc]

What's a c/d and why did you rip off the rat tail? I'm introducing my BP to a f/t rat on Monday. Just wondering if I am missing something.

C/D is cranial dislocation, basically breaking the rats neck. Pin the rats head to a table with a ruler or something and pull the tail to break the neck. I'm surprised the tail would come off but then again I've never tried it. I don't have the stomach for that, I'd rather let the snake do the killing lol.

On another note my snakes wound seems to have healed. I got a bottle of Betadine and now I can't even see where she got bit.

[decensored]

We've fed live and are just recently going to try and switch them over to F/T. We are pretty sure the rats we bought were offered to another snake before we purchased them and transferred mites to ours. Most pet stores offer a return for store credit deal and you may come in and buy a rat that was offered to a snake with mites within the last few hours, bring it home and infect your own collection. Its safer to buy F/T in that sense. As for nutritional value, I don't think there's that much of a difference. Keep in mind though, that ALL food when frozen loses SOME nutritional value over time, and most people don't recommend keeping frozen feeders for much longer than 6 - 9 months.

Hope this helps.

[decensored]

C/D is cranial dislocation, basically breaking the rats neck. Pin the rats head to a table with a ruler or something and pull the tail to break the neck. I'm surprised the tail would come off but then again I've never tried it. I don't have the stomach for that, I'd rather let the snake do the killing lol.

On another note my snakes wound seems to have healed. I got a bottle of Betadine and now I can't even see where she got bit.

Mice can be euthanized with the tail yanking/ neck breaking method. For Rats, all you do is pull them tail off, hurt the rat, cause a mess, and turn off your snake from eating.