Why on earth are you feeding live rats anyways ? There is simply no need IMHO .Originally Posted by Reinz
Somebody posted that it is NOT just the hungry rats that bite. In my experience I have found that to be true on numerous occasions.
Sometimes mywon't take the rat. Thus, I'm forced to cage it. I feed and water it well. I then offer the rat up again in a few days. Many times these well fed rats have offensively attacked my snake.
Needless to say I immediately grabbed the rat!
This is why I now feed by hand, while the rat is trying to bite me.
Which reminds me, I'm getting off here now to get on EBay to buy some long hemostats. The long tongs won't hold the rats.
One it's just cruel on the rats , at least in the wild they have a chance of escaping and try and run . In a confined space they get cornered and fight back to save their lives . Google snakes bit by rats !!! Scary what damage they can do to your precious snakes who don't quite as pretty with scarred heads or eyes missing !!
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