Honest opinions on feeding.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

And you think you can get to the rat with a pair of tongs BEFORE the rat can sink his teeth into your BP's eye or whatever part it lunges for ??

I'm find myself bemused when I read the comments directed at anyone who dare suggest giving a snake who's had a bad shed a short soak because you may be putting it through unnecessary stress BUT it seems everyone's quite happy to drop a fine tuned proven killing machine intent on fighting for it's life with razor sharp claws and teeth into a sealed area with nowhere to hide with our precious Royals . These beautiful Royals / BPs aren't exactly kitted out for warfare are they ??

You only have to google and google images to see thousands of snakes bitten by rats ...terrible injuries occur .
It's not as though these occurrences are rare , they're pretty coTalking about 'thinking' movies . .. I gave up pretty early on Lincoln even though DDL is one of my fave actors . . my brain was hurting after about 15 minutes but maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind or maybe just too tired ..
I'm going to give it another try one day as I feel as though I'm missing out ...

What's your experience on feeding live preys to a BP be caused based on this post it is limited or at best uneducated best on your description of live feeding this "killing monster prey"

The right feeder will more often than not fall asleep in the cage of course stressing the prey with stunning or dangling is definitely not how you go about it either.

Those internet pictures all have a back story the one of a careless owner, leaving an oversized rodent rodent with a snake or one unattended for days in the cage and that does not represent responsible live feeding.

I'm for one about educating people about their options and giving then the tool to be able to chose what works for them rather than scaring them with the story of the big boogyman and how dangerous live is......f/t can be dangerous too if not done responsibly.

Now my experience 250 live prey a month over the last 9 years (that's only 27000 preys which is nothing compare to large breeders) out of that never had a single issue. This of course only represent my BP collection it does not include any hatchlings or the other species I have or currently work with.




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