Balls Eating Rabbits???

[DooLittle]

If he was feeding the bp baby bunnies. Some breeds of rabbits are small, and their new born and young before eyes open are not even bigger than rats. We used to breed Holland lops. (Not for snake food, but for show). A new born Holland lop is probably the same size as a rat crawler. Can't imagine rabbits would be cost effective though......

[jfmoore]

Trust, but verify?

I always hear about really heavy/really long/really old ball pythons which ate really, really large prey items. But they usually belonged to a friend of a friend of a friend and no one had a scale or measuring tape at the time. Etc, etc.

I guess bunny people are as nutty as snake people:

[zeion97]

I skimmed this yesterday..but didn't reply.

Think about this. Maybe someone owns a FEW Larger snakes, I mean hell, I've got a small burm and he could take a "dwarf" rabbit. A bp could also easily take one in. MY point? Maybe someone breeds ALOT of rabbits for other snakes and instead of eating rats the BP's eat baby rabbits. It's a long shot but possible.

The way I see it, as long as someone feeds responsibly and feeds the correct prey size/weight it shouldn't really worry us... MOST of the time. NO I am not advocating cats and dogs be a food source.. -_-;

[akjadlnfkjfdkladf]

bunnies yes, but full grown rabbits?

[pigfat]

bunnies yes, but full grown rabbits?

lol!!!

[Mike41793]

Yes i can definetly see baby rabbits being eaten and im guessing thats what he was talking about but there is no way a ball python could eat an adult rabbit? (and im refering to a normal size adult rabbit not one of those giant ones that are bigger than those kids lol^^^)

[TheSnakeEye]

I can definitely see this being possible with small rabbits, except I would imagine that we'd have to watch the snake when coiling the rabbit more so than when coiling a rat. I'm sure a rabbit has stronger legs that can cut the snake and I'm sure they have a stronger bite as well.

[evan385]

Buddy of mine has a massive female ball, biggest one i've ever seen. She's about 12 lbs or 5500g and around six feet. I wouldn't doubt that she could eat a rabbit or at least a small one.

[bubblz]

It doesn't have to be a baby rabbit there are types of large adult rabbits that ball pythons can take, not every rabbit is huge. People just get too fixated on rats as food for Bps, when that's just what most (not everyone) people offer in captivity. If more people started cost effectively mass breeding other animals as feeders like they do rats, I'm sure that would change.

[WifeOfSlasher]

I can see it happening. My sisters female probably needs a properly sized rabbit. She can eat 2 giant rats and be looking for more in a week.