Originally Posted by djansen
ok, first off if its really bothering you then please dont feel the need to explain. I am not trying to convince you to feed FT but list why you think that there are any advantages to feeding live vs FT.
again you asked me at least twice to list my reasons
ugh...I feel like I have written this a thousand times....again this is my opinion
Pros-
1. it is easier for me...I do plan on getting many more BP's by the end of the year and eventually am planning to breed my own
Nice, I wish you luck. and with your setup it may workout for you. but raising mice does not sound easier then buying frozen in bulk.
well it certainly would be cheaper in the long run
2. I like going to the store to pick up feeders each week...it is fun for me to check out their new stuff....play with their tegu for a while...and talk to the owner about what she has seen around
well i personally dont like going to pet stores and lots of people dont have time to do this.
again that is personal choice
3. I think thawing mice is gross....I really don't want 10-15 soggy mice laying around while I wait for them to get the right temp.
I thaw them on a hot pad in my snake room so they are not soggy. And I think a tub of 50 live mice is gross but to each their own. And thawing for an hour beets having them all the time (breeding them)
Been there done that....and yes they are still soggy floppy gross things...and I have had one pop and ooze out...again that is my personal opinion
4. My 83 yr old Mom lives with us...and though she is hip to the snakes...she has opened the bag by accident grabbed one of the mice and freaked
i have another freezer for mine, or lable them and move them away from food. does she like live mice better?
actually she doesn't mind...
5. I personally think that live has better nutrients due to not being frozen. And I do not really know when this rodent was frozen. I have to rely on the person I bought it from to tell me that and hope they are being honest.
thats why you buy from a trusted person. do you trust the pet store owner you get live from? alot of petstores dont breed there own.
Why actually I have two places to buy from that I trust and yes...they do raise their own and I can go and hand pick them myself if I wish to...therefore I can see the environment, food, and cleanliness of the feeders
6. There have been tragedies feeding FT as well as live. The nails of the FT do not have the give that live does...therefore it has been known at times to cause internal injuries.
Im not saying this does not happen but i was not aware of this or heard any problems like this.
again things I have heard just like you have heard of horror stories with feeding live. I have heard a few stories of internal injuries due to hard nails. Again...does any of this happen all the time...no....just like snakes do not get bit all the time if you are on top of what you are doing. The only time my snake has been bit is when I first started feeding live and was not aware of what I was doing...again this was a nip that did not leave a mark.
7. It takes less time for me overall to do it this way and less messy. Get em...put em in the critter carrier...feed them off....clean out the carrier...done.
ok with a few snakes this may be fine but lets see how clean and neat this is when you have alot more.
even if I were to breed or get more snakes and buy more feeders I do not see that it will be messy or a hassel at all. A couple more critter carriers and it is done. I can easily wash them out in 2 minutes.
8. My personal opinion is it is much more natural for them.
[Byour right, it isB]
yep..that is the great thing about America...we get to have opinions!
Again...I don't give a poo what anyone else does....I am not here to convince anyone. However with that being said...it gets really really old when some ppl that do feed F/T push it so much.
Again everyone can look there are so many of these threads and quite frankly its just ridiculous to care what someone else does...it is their choice. If you do it right there is little to no danger involved in live. True I would never put a feeder in and leave it alone. In this house we do not close the bin unless it is dead..simple.
But to condem or to feel the need to point out how FT is better or to just have a better than thou attitude about it just gets old.
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