Quote Originally Posted by treeboa View Post
I've been doing this for 22 years. At the beginning I fed only live for several reasons. As I've said repeatedly I DO feed live. I, too, have only had a handful of incidents with live. On the other hand I've had 0 incidents with f/t. I've been part of three herp societies and been on various forums since they've existed (Since what 97-98?) I've never even heard second hand of anyone screwing up f/t. I know it happens, that's why it's written about in books and magazines. You have no basis for your view on f/t accidents happening as much as live feeding, it is not a fact.
I didn't say that they happen the same amount, I said they're equally risky.

And you wouldn't know if you killed your snake with f/t, thats why you don't see stories of it really. (i've never seen one either). How many owners/breeders get autopsies done on dead snakes to determine what killed them though? You wouldn't know what killed it, unless you had an autopsy done to determine the cod was an improperly thawed rodent. Not a ton of breeders would be that willing to do that, they'd probably just write it off as something else.