Quote Originally Posted by mr.spooky View Post
yes, they eat wild mice/rats in the wild, and have from the day that they were born.
*i might be talking out of my ass here* but it seems to me that they (the wild ones) probabaly have imunities to deseases that your captive bread snake might not... think of when the europeans came to america (the name we call it today)..
they brought deseases and stuff that theirimune system could handle, but it wiped out thousands that werent use to it.
spooky
Wild animals are rarely "healthy." Wild animals have drastically lower life spans than those kept in captivity. Some of this is from predators but parasites and other illness is a real issue as well. Wild animals have intestinal parasites, ticks, and mites and they live with them. Parasites have not evolved to kill their hosts. They live with you causing issues that you can live with.