How Not To Feed Your Snake (Graphic)!

[Awaiting Abyss]

Yet the mouse gets eaten alive in other cases, but that is overlooked or doesn't matter... Suddenly when a mouse gets hungry, since they need access to food and water at all times, its a horrible thing when the tables are turned...

[jxl]

Are ball pythons stupid or what? I just can't understand why the ball pythons don't fight back? Getting a bite or two OK that's normal it happens living creature does have to eat or tries to defend, but a ball python is able to kill much larger prey than they can eat.

OK they are not hungry and everything but I just can't grasp the idea the snake just watches themselves getting eaten and not killing the prey in their defense.

[AlexisFitzy]

Yet the mouse gets eaten alive in other cases, but that is overlooked or doesn't matter... Suddenly when a mouse gets hungry, since they need access to food and water at all times, its a horrible thing when the tables are turned...

When the last time you've seen a snake swallow a mouse or rat when they are still alive? I'm pretty sure they kill it first before they actually begin to devour the food. I feed f/t so they are already dead but if they didn't take it I'd feed live or prekilled. The tables aren't being turned at all. This is the result of a owner not feeding live properly. If the rodent is fed and taken care of before being placed in the enclosure with the snake it won't have a reason to find another source of food. It's also the reason you don't leave them alone for hours on end so they get hungry and start to eat the only other thing they can. The snake. That's why live feeding always have to be supervised and the rodents be taken care of before placing them in with the snake. As another person commented it's not the wild. The snake and feeder are trapped together. No means of escape for either of them. So these things can and will happen if not done properly. I hope this comment doesn't come off as rude or as an attack because that's not my intention. Just want to inform.


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[200xth]

I'm pretty sure they kill it first before they actually begin to devour the food.

Venomous snakes and constrictors are the more humane ones who kill their food most of the time.

A lot of other snakes skip the killing part. They grab and start eating and will eat their prey alive.

[Awaiting Abyss]

When the last time you've seen a snake swallow a mouse or rat when they are still alive? I'm pretty sure they kill it first before they actually begin to devour the food. I feed f/t so they are already dead but if they didn't take it I'd feed live or prekilled. The tables aren't being turned at all. This is the result of a owner not feeding live properly. If the rodent is fed and taken care of before being placed in the enclosure with the snake it won't have a reason to find another source of food. It's also the reason you don't leave them alone for hours on end so they get hungry and start to eat the only other thing they can. The snake. That's why live feeding always have to be supervised and the rodents be taken care of before placing them in with the snake. As another person commented it's not the wild. The snake and feeder are trapped together. No means of escape for either of them. So these things can and will happen if not done properly. I hope this comment doesn't come off as rude or as an attack because that's not my intention. Just want to inform.


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I don't feed live to snakes, so never.

The tables are turned as in the mouse ate the snake.

No need to inform me. I know what happened and why. I was commenting on the fact that everyone is upset because the snake died, which yes, us upsetting, but mice die every day to feed a pet snake somewhere.

[AlexisFitzy]

Venomous snakes and constrictors are the more humane ones who kill their food most of the time.

A lot of other snakes skip the killing part. They grab and start eating and will eat their prey alive.

This is very true, I thought about including this in my comment but didn't since were talking about a bp. But I do know that some snakes do not kill before eating there prey.


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[200xth]

This is very true, I thought about including this in my comment but didn't since were talking about a bp. But I do know that some snakes do not kill before eating there prey.

Ahh. Gotcha.

[AlexisFitzy]

I don't feed live to snakes, so never.

The tables are turned as in the mouse ate the snake.

No need to inform me. I know what happened and why. I was commenting on the fact that everyone is upset because the snake died, which yes, us upsetting, but mice die every day to feed a pet snake somewhere.

That is true that rodents are being eaten everyday to keep snakes alive but if snakes didn't eat rodents everyday then the rat population would be out of control. There are more rats and mice on this earth than humans. They will never be endangered and will always be around. Love rats and have actually had one as a pet so I understand where your coming from.


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[h20hunter]

This should have nothing to do about the food chain...it is a horrible display of crappy ownership and animal neglect.

[bcr229]

Phew.. Atleast its a normal

Seriously? Stupidity should be both painful AND expensive. Sadly it was painful only for the snake. It would have served the crappy owner right to lose a high-$$$ morph.