Quote Originally Posted by djansen View Post
Ok there not a collectors item, but whats wrong with trying to provide the best life you can for them? and how do you know they want live? you ask them or are you assuming personally when my snakes take a FT rat I dont think they really care or wish it was live (yes, i assume )


whats your point? sale value is a huge part of the game. and still would rather these scars were not there in the first place if I could have avoided it.

Im not really getting where some of you are coming from here.
lol Hey we all have our own ways of doing things I guess. Having little discussions like this are actually interesting to me to see everyone's way of doing things and their reasoning.

The main reason why I feed live is because I think its more natural to feed your BP a live mouse (like he eats in the wild) instead of some pre-killed frozen stuff.... I truely beleive it benefits your snake to have to kill its own prey instead of having some dead mouse that was previously frozen fed to it.

That is just my opinion though, and I am not saying I am right, but it truly seams like I am right because so many peoples reasons for not feeding live is "it's easier to buy a bag of frozen". To me, that just sounds like the owners are doing whats more convenient to THEM and not good for the SNAKE. But I may be wrong.

All I know is that if us humans were some other animals pets, we wouldn't want to be fed live prey.... since we are so used to eating cooked stuff that we already had killed. I just try to put myself in the snakes shoes and whenever I think like that, I always just feel like the snake appreciates live prey more than he would frozen because its just more natural and it's how it works in real nature.