Why live??

[the_yellow_pony]

I feed live. I don't have to run to a supplier every week though, I breed my own. Which makes it super easy and convenient. I simply go in the room, grab a rat and go feed. If snake doesn't eat, rat goes into the next tub until somebody eats him. If nobody does, he goes back in the tank till next week. No wasted food for me. Frozen thawed is a pita, imo. Take the rats out, keep checking to see if properly thawed, then dink around doing zombie dances? Plus I don't have the freezer space to store dead rats. I'll pass. Live is what works for me and mine, and none of mine have a problem with it. I supervise so no accidents happen, and everything is fine, safe, and easy. Your snake is only going to get chewed up that bad if you aren't watching and leave a hungry grumpy feeder alone with him for awhile.

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Still don't get how maintaining a colony of live is less of a pita than spending a little bit of time to thaw things out once a week. To each their own.

Zombie dances made me laugh. The mental image was funny. Most, once adjusted to f/t don't really require much zombie dancing in my experience.

Freezer space, I get. I just bought a chest freezer specifically for my rodents.

In regards to safe and easy, and while I like to avoid argument, no accidents ever happening? Really? So you can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that every time your animals constrict there is no room for a bite or two?

I get that it's what works for you and that's fine, but blanket statements like that are silly. While they might not get "chewed up", a bite comes with it's own series of risks.

Another question, what about rats fed to quarantine animals? If they refuse to you kill off the feeder and freeze/dispose of it?

Just curious.