Quote Originally Posted by Sita
Like I posted previously, if the dog food you're feeding contains Red Dye 40, it is building up in their systems from day one, and the toxins are being passed on to your snakes.

Even though there aren't specific studies with that dye and pet snakes, there's been plenty of studies involving other toxins being ingested by prey and being found in and affecting the predator that eats them.

You're risking the health of your SNAKES by feeding dog food, not just the rodents.
You Literally Just wrote in the same post that there are no specific studies with that specific dye and pet snakes. Meaning that until something has been proven there is no reason to stop. Yes, there is a distinct possibility that the food MIGHT be builiding some sort of toxin that could impact my snake. And in the exact same way, the cell phone in your pocket MIGHT be giving you cancer as we speak. It will not stop you from carrying that cell phone in your pocket until definitive research has proven the theory.

If you would really like to, we can derail this thread and make this a debate about whether feeding dog food or rat block is the ethical thing to do for both prey and predator, but its been hashed out a thousand times before and not a single person has won yet.
Show me a study that shows that when a toxin is ingested by a prey animal that AFFECTS the animal, and this prey animal is the majority of what the predator eats, that the predator is completely unaffected.

Mercury, DDT, toxic phytoplankton, pesticides, rodenticides...all these and more have been proven to affect the prey AND the predator that feeds on them. If you want to risk the life and health of your snakes by feeding them toxin-laced rodents, then go ahead. For me, the science is there to show that more than likely, not "possibly" or "might", feeding our snakes an animal that has been ingesting a KNOWN poison is going to affect the health of the snake.