Quote Originally Posted by Kyle7676 View Post
If you noticed, my first point I addressed the issue of feeding rat pups to snakes. You mean to tell me that you are ok with feeding a 3000g snake rat pups ? Really ?
You can feed a 3000g snake small rats multiple times a week rather than one jumbo rat every 2 weeks.

I stand by what I have said. If the owner is careful, there is no risk from feding f/t. By all means, prove me wrong. Show me the risk of feeding f/t where the owner is responsible.
And I'll still respond with, if the owner feeds responsibly, there is no risk from feeding live. Most if not all of the times you hear about a rat bite or attack is due to feeding an adult rat and/or leaving the rat alone with the snake for an inappropriate amount of time. A rat left for a few hours or more is a hungry rat. The only other thing in the enclosure is the snake. So put two and two together and you get an injured or dead snake.

You can put an adult rat with rat pups without food and the adult will kill the babies to eat.

The point is, the owner has to be vigilant and responsible.


I also stand by my point, along with many others on here, that there IS a risk to feeding live.
Just like there is a risk to feeding f/t.......

Like I said previously, there are risks to both methods. There is no right or wrong.