What is considered power feeding?

[The Serpent Merchant]

I agree with all the people about forcing. You can't apply human functions and dysfunctions to animals.

My snakes determine when they want to eat. Some eat 3-4 days. Some are 5. Some are 7... and so on. I breed my own food so I can offer whenever I like to. I know my snakes and I know their body language so I can almost always tell within a moment or two if my snakes are going to eat. All of my snakes will take a break if they don't want to eat. I think some of this stuff is totally just parroted around from forum to forum.

Regards,

B

So then explain why snakes will try to eat things so large that they end up dying. Sure most snakes will turn down food if it is offered too often. But some will and in those cases I would consider this power feeding. I have a snake that eats small meals more frequently. That isn't power feeding but if large meals are fed too frequently then the results are the same as if you forced the snake to eat the rat.