Here are my thoughts on live feeding. At this point I don't do if for a simple reason. My Tegu and Childrens Python both readily accept F/T so it is easier for me to keep a stock pile in the freezer. When I first started keeping snakes as a kid there really wasn't any place around me that sold F/T so I had to feed live (which meant weekly trips to the shop to get a mouse). Before I even got my first snake the store owner told me that feeding live wasn't just throwing the mouse/rat in the tank and walking away. He said "you have to watch and be ready to interject if something goes wrong, and possibly take a bite from either animal. If you aren't willing to do that, then maybe you want something different." So from the beginning I was lucky enough to have a reptile shop around me that actually cared. So for about 5 years I was feeding live and didn't have one accident. There is a right and wrong way to do everything.
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