The Age Old Question

[Sauzo]

Not the thread for this topic, but you are giving ridiculously bad information here. It is perfectly fine to feed live prey to our pets (as long as you are a responsible keeper).

I would not say its ridiculous. Have you ever seen what a small to medium rat can do to a snake that grabs it by say the butt end and rat manages to spin around and bite? Its horrible. I have never had it happen to any of my snakes or monitors as I always pre kill my rats before feeding but I have heard and see pictures of the horror stories. Like I said, sure you might not see it for months or years but it only takes 1 time to change your mind. I personally would rather not even chance it and like I said, I pre kill for my reptiles safety. Again to each their own but go google rat bites on snakes and see for yourself or you can try it yourself. Grab a rat in your hand and squeeze it and see how big of bite it takes out of your hand. Not some little weanling or fuzzy but a small to large rat. I'm actually rather surprised you would advocate feeding live to begin with as 90% of the snakes owners I've talked to either feed F/T or pre killed because of the statement I've stated above. And yes I know some people will put a pencil or chopstick or something else in the rats mouth to keep it from biting once the snake grabs it and others will pin the head etc but again, why go through all that when you can just pre kill it.