How Not To Feed Your Snake (Graphic)!

[MasonC2K]

http://imgur.com/r/WTF/sEae3MZ

I'll just link to it. Not for the squeamish.

[Pythonfriend]

umm, ok, EXTREMELY graphic, thanks for giving people a choice by just linking to it.

looks unreal. i cannot believe a single rat eating so much of a BPs body in a short time. i mean, the snake is partially gone.

[Shann]

I'm surprised this hadn't been posted here yet. It's just sad. So many things done wrong here...

[JMinILM]

so much wrong here. Too large of a rat, rat left in over night, BP kept on sand. The other sad thing is that some will look at this and say "see look what happens when you feed live". Live feeding is perfectly fine as long as it is done properly.

[Badgemash]

Last week I had the misfortune of being present for the discovery of an escaped baby who sadly found it's way into a rat growout tub. It was euthanized immediately, but I have no idea how it was still even alive. One of the worst things I've ever seen in my life.

[bcr229]

Poor snake also looks very dead.
Owner is an :cens0r:!

[Awaiting Abyss]

Its a mouse. Not a rat.

[Archimedes]

I'm not even going to click, because I saw this image last week. This was a case of leaving the mouse in overnight. 10 hours. That's it. That's all it took for this tragedy to occur.

Live prey gets FIFTEEN MINUTES TOPS with the snake. If your snake isn't interested within 15 minutes, it's not hungry.

Thank you for sharing this, I was looking for this exact image to supply to a thread earlier this afternoon. I didn't find it, but I'm glad someone did. As sickening and heartwrenching as it is, people need to know that this is the danger of a prolonged, unsupervised live feeding.

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[Pythonfriend]

while i do not doubt that really bad things can happen, it seems a bit over the top.

just looking at the proportions, i would guesstimate that little rhodent just ate something like a third or half of its own body weight in raw snake meat. unless the picture doesnt show something.

im suggesting that maybe the picture was faked, but with good intentions and to make a point. maybe im wrong and its real, but when i look at it, i just wonder where the other 3 that participated in the feast are. if its real, i am astounded by the amount of raw meat that moved into a belly.

[Shera]

I saw that recently, posted by a local herp rescue group. My first thought was that it may have been faked by someone out make a point about feeding live. A lot of people seem to have a major issue with it. Either way that snake surely looks dead and it's a shame.