Is live feeding really that dangerous?

[John1982]

So do you have to watch over each snake until its eaten the prey safely ??

That must take much longer than simply defrosting and offering .

You only have to keep an eye out until the rodent is safely dead - much less time than it takes to thaw. I'm not sure how this makes effective rhetoric for your anti live campaign? More time in the snake room sounds like something for the "pros" list to someone who enjoys spending time interacting with and observing their reptiles. Let's say you give a snake 10-15 minutes to dispatch a prey item before abandoning a feed. Seems to me, feeding live only takes 10-15 minutes longer than feeding f/t and you don't have to thaw anything out. Maybe it takes a bit less than that as you also don't have to employ any of the "tricks" used to get some animals to accept.