Quote Originally Posted by MS2 View Post
Who came up with F/T anyway? Live is the way nature made it.......seems like F/ T came about to be more convenient. I'm sure a freezer full of rats is a lot easier to care for than my colony of rats are. I could care less how other people feed, I perfer live. I'm certainly not going to judge people for the way they feed....
In nature snakes are ALSO predated, being eaten by birds, large mammals, and even other snakes. I don't see you keeping a hyena around the house to make it more "natural" though. That's the whole point of keeping pets; we are removing them from nature, and fitting them into our domestic lives for our pleasure. This brings some benefit for the animals such as protection from diseases (and treatment if they do catch one), protection from being eaten, or injured, and provided food on a regular basis so they don't starve. There are many valid reasons to feed live, anything from cost to making sure fussy feeders keep eating. Feeding live because it's "more natural" though? Kind of a pretty dumb one that isn't very fully thought out.