Is live feeding really that bad?

[Zincubus]

Personally I would prefer to feed live, but that's not possible for me as it's hard to get live rodents in Ireland unless you breed your own.

When you feed live, you know the food is fresh and hasn't been sitting in a freezer for weeks.

I think every snake owner should be prepared to feed live if the snakes life depends on it,
Live feeding should always be supervised.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That said I wouldn't keep snakes if they were LIVE feeders as I just couldn't do it .

The funny thing is over all the years I've been keeping snakes of all types including Cape File snakes , Boas , Burms , Kings , Milks , Garters , Rhino Ratsnakes , Bamboo Ratsnakes , Corns and over thirty Royals ....... I've never had one single snake that wouldn't take defrosted frozen mice / rats so I'm puzzled as to why there are apparently so many snakes out there who simply HAVE to eat LIVE food .

Just to be clear here .. .. I'm not judging anyone just expressing a view .