Thought I'd better introduce myself as things seem to be a bit shaky .

[Zincubus]

If you reread the first post in that thread you'll see that the OP was not monitoring the feed very closely. Besides this, that bite is about the equivalent of a skinned knee on a kid. Just because you treat something doesn't make it a life threatening catastrophe. Superficial damage that heals completely after a few sheds doesn't much count in my book.

Now, pictures like that would make acceptable ammunition for your anti-live campaigns. At least it's a "wound" that occurred during a feeding time strike unlike your last choice. Just have to find a way to spin this out of proportion and make it seem like that snake is on death's door.

It's nothing to do with spinning anything out of proportion I was just passing an opinion on the various posts in the thread .... We could say that you are actually making light of the situation if we are playing that game . If I did want to add fuel to the fire I could have posted something provocative but I refrained from doing that very thing , as I promised I wouldn't get involved in any live feeding discussions . Incidentally , there's also a post mentioning many , worse bites to a keeper's snakes and there's another post describing the many varying injuries seen caused by rodent bites.


If I'm being totally honest , I'm still bemused by the whole live feeding thing ..... experienced people worry about their snakes , what and when to feed , where best to feed , the humidity and temperature levels , the substrate , the amount of room they have and even types of lighting etc etc etc .

So we all go through all this trouble and worry to keep out precious animals healthy and happy and then some go and drop a live , proven killing machine ( adult rat ) who's going to fight for it's life INTO an enclosed area WITH the snake .