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

[Jay_Bunny]

You mentioned pet stores having all theirs on FT. Bull!! I promise you that petsmart and petco have maybe 1 out every 10-15 snakes that actually eats for them. Especially the balls. They usually never eat for them because those babies have either not yet been switched to FT, or they simply have not had their first meal yet and they don't want to take a dead rodent as their first meal.

This is something we have talked about on here many times. We have members on here who work for these stores. They see these things and it bothers them.

I can vouch for this. I worked at a Petsmart and if you look up my old threads regarding a few of my experiences working there you'll see. I had to bring a corn snake baby back from the brink of starvation. At several months old, this snake weighed only 4g. I was not allowed (by company policy) to feed it live, so I had to stress this snake out by tube feeding it and assist feeding it for months before it finally began eating f/t on its own. Also 75% or more of the ball pythons that came into the store did not accept f/t and a few under my care had to be assist fed because they began to lose a lot of weight.