Ah, I think I have aroused the wrath of Stormyva with my posting about how I enjoy watching my snakes take out live rodents.Well, I must say that I agree that feeding F/T is no doubt a completely safer approach to the whole business but I actually think it is a lot harder than it sounds trying to get all snakes to take pre-killed. In my observation it appears that a lot of snakes are genetically cued to warmth, movement in a prey item and will flat out ignore prey that is just laying there. I monitor the introduction of the live prey to my snakes feeding area and I do not just plop a mouse in there and walk away and forget about it....so I do not have mice or rats gnawing away at my snakes while I am off playing with myself or something.

Fundamentally, as far as the more graphic aspects of observing a mouse or rat being consumed by a boid are concerned...I feel that this is nature in the raw and if you cannot handle it you are in wrong hobby....nature is NOT pretty and when animals eat each other it is pretty much a gruesome process...look at lions running down an antelope and ripping its throat out. I myself I like to watch..it dont bother me a bit to see a rat getting the life choked out of it. but I am a rough dude anyhow....
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