switching from f/t to live?

[ejseoane]

just my opinion but i feed live, its more natural and that's what snakes do ,they kill stuff and eat it , the whole gas chamber thing is way overboard in my opinion unless maybe your killing a bunch of them at once , personally i go and get a mouse , i don't pre kill it, but i stun it by flicking it in the head, that way it stuns the animal and disorients them , then drop it in the feeding tank or whatever you feed your snake in, usually my snakes snatch them up before they get there bearings completely back , i know a lot of people would say that is cruel to do that but i don't think its any worse than making a ghetto gas chamber and killing it that way . I may be wrong, but back in the day, like before people could order dead rats online , i never herd of frozen rats , people either feed live , stunned or pre killed. all this is just my opinion , im not saying that it is the wrong or right way , i say do what your comfortable with and what your snake is comfortable with

[craigj1187]

yeah i'll probably keep feeding live, the pet shop i go to doesnt have much of a selection. but the live adult mice they have seem to be perfect size for now"after the first live mouse he is now in shed" plus he took the live mouse WAY faster than the f/t. plus its easier to go and grab a mouse on feeding day than have my g/f griping about dead mice in the freezer lol. plus it seems healthier because the frozen mice they have are real skinny looking