Do you use live or f/t food?

[Mr. Misha]

I feed mine live. It's a lot easier and hassle-free than anything else in my opinion. You pick up a mouse, throw it in, and 10 seconds later your snakey is having dinner. Unlike some people on this forum, I'm lucky enough to have a reptile store near me that sells live feeders. No offence to anyone who feeds F/T, but I can't imagine having mice or rats in my fridge (unless you have a separate one) or defrosting those suckers all day. The whole process actually grosses me out.

[Schmee123]

I feed pre-killed and F/T..

I had an incident where one of my BPs snagged the wrong end of a Live mouse and it went bonkers. After that, I decided to eliminate the potential of an injury to the snake. Once I decided to feed pre-killed, I figured I try and switch them over to F/T and save myself a few trips to the shop. I've been tempted to check into ordering large quantities of F/T to save a few dollars, but I'm a strong believer in supporting the local reptile shop.

[martin82531]

F/T as it is just easier for me to keep food on hand verse live.

[brock lesser]

F/T works best for me. babies get live until their third meal then I switch them over.

[AlexisFitzy]

F/T as it is just easier for me to keep food on hand verse live.

Same for me too


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[MisterKyte]

I feed both F/T and live. Live for the two BPs I own that have refused to take anything else but I would actually feed everything live if I had the time and space to raise a large feeder colony. As far as storage goes, F/T is just simpler even if the live rats are easier to recycle and more nutritional for the snakes.

[Naom9Anne]

But I'm pretty sure that rule dosent apply if the snake is dying and there is no other option but otherwise it is clasified as animal cruelty

You can feed live in the UK it's just heard of less. If you are breeding as long as the rats are cared for and killed humanely you're allowed to use this method. I prefer F/T, it's much simpler and easier to feed in this way in my opinion if you go under the assumption your snake will take it.

You can't, however, walk into a pet shop and go "Excuse me sir, I like that small mouse, it looks tasty for my royal python" I think that would be met with strange looks and possibly being removed from the store. You could go in and buy one under the pretence it was to be a pet but I know someone who breeds and humanely kills for feeding so worst case scenario I would go to him should I be in that situation.

I'll stick to my F/T I can sort of ignore that they were cute, furry little things and I see them as purely snake food like this

[bandicoot4]

Since I only have two snakes it's not tha bad buying both. My pastel refuses anything frozen no matter what I do to try and switch her over, but my butter is taking frozen rats like a champ. I rather have both of them on f/t for safety reasons but ill cross that bridge when my pastel is bigger and on to larger prey

[CrystalRose]

I feed F/T. I don't have a close source for live so I've been lucky so far that all my snakes will take F/T. If I ever get one that needs live I'll have a problem since the nearest source of live for me is about an hour drive one way.

[jessica87]

We use f/t, My wife prefer's that way and I to. Being owners of ''pet'' rats in the past I personally can't which a rat die by a snake and also buying frozen is great, I purchased about 10 at a time from my local rat breeder and leave them in the freezer. (Right now we have a few different sizes ranging from 14-35 grams....rats pups/weaned)