How do you feed live mice / rats?

[JoshSloane]

I know this seems cruel or whatever, but somebody I knew breeds their own feeder rats. For some reason these rats were all very aggressive; one of her ball pythons were killed by one.

So before she fed the rats to the snakes, she would get a really big knife and sort of bash the teeth out of the rodent.

I wouldn't recommend this for anyone else though lol

This practice is absolutely NOT condoned at all by the reptile community. It is a highly cruel act and should not be practiced or tolerated. If we want to grow as a reptile community, and become accepted and respected by mainstream culture, this kind of behavior needs to stop. Feeding live is fine. But mutilating the feeder animal beforehand is not ok.