Quote Originally Posted by Paysons Bps View Post
DONT FEED LIVE, try your hardest to reframe from feeding live. I just saw the most graphic pictures of a ball python that was destroyed by a live mouse, yes a mouse. Little inocent mice can cause major injury to your snake if your not monitoring it. Those pictures totally changed the way i feel on feeding live. If you want to see the results
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...d.php?t=119328 Warning GRAPHIC...
That is horrible. BUT it was due to NEGLECT by the owner. All live feeding should be monitored. The mouse or rat should never be left in there if the snake shows no interest. I feed one of my BPs live because she's stubborn. I use tongs and dangle the mouse. I don't let it run around.