Originally Posted by Anya
That's not the point. Who goes around taking them to the vet in the wild? Who tests for parasites it the wild? If you own an animal, it's your responsibility to provide to the best of your ability, the best care possible for said animal. Risk of impaction is minimal: It's still a risk, and if your snake will tolerate being moved to eat, I applaud that. I personally don't move my snakes to eat at all, simply because I don't feel that the benefits outweigh throwing my snakes off food. But I will never chide someone for doing something that could potentially benefit their animal!
Sorry, worked up tonight, lol. I'm not meaning to start an argument or anything, just stating my opinion.
Thank you for that. I understand it's a minimal risk as you said but my BP has no problem eating outside her enclosure.(though I know many snakes do)
All I was trying to do was warn the OP of the risk(minimal as it is) if they use aspen substrate.
Hell I got LUCKY with our BP Snickers! She doesn't mind eating outside of her enclosure, has never hissed at us or bitten us and in spite of our months of poor husbandry and a bad shed(all that is corrected now) she forgave us and isn't mean in the slightest.
We are "LUCKY" to have such BP with an AWESOME ATTITUDE but I do understand in the end we did just happen to get "LUCKY" with Snickers.
That being said I feel I had the right to warn the OP of minimal risk of impaction which is all I did and thank you for understanding that when others failed to.
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