Live food...why? Honestly & with facts!

[rabernet]

ANYway...the main thing i had wanted to comment on was rabernet, who said "I feed live to all my ball pythons except my albino, and that's only because I don't like seeing any blemishes on him, like scratches from a kicking rodent. It doesn't hurt them, their scales are designed and do protect them."

I'll just be blunt here and ask why you think it's okay that your other snakes are allowed blemishes, or scratches, or worse...but your favorite isn't. That is like admitting that yes, they DO get hurt from live food...but you have one that is more worthy of not getting hurt.
Just weird.

I missed this earlier, but I'll just be blunt here and say that the snakes with melanin do NOT have blemishes, because the melanin doesn't show them. You're making an assumption that the albino is my favorite animal in my collection, and he's not.

Blemishes are not injuries. I get scratched all the time in my daily life and things that I do, but I do not consider minor scratches to be injuries, nor life threatening. In fact, I barely notice them - they are simply cosmetic. I am feeding f/t to that particular snake for cosmetic reasons only - not for safety, or because he's a favored snake in any way.

You chose to pick one part of my post out, without acknowledging the extremely low risk of injury in my collection from feeding live. Using my own, real life experiences, with over 15K live feedings, I have not ONCE had any rodent maim or scar a single snake in my collection.

Feed F/T if that's what you prefer, but do NOT sit in judgement of those who prefer feeding live prey to their collections, for whatever their reason may be. In fact, no one owes you any explanation as to why they came to the choice that they cam to.

Your horse appears to be pretty high and your sword rather mighty.