Dante the Inferno - finally an introduction

[Aedryan Methyus]

I feel the same. My youngin’ ball pythons will eat about anything as they are growing like weeds. My adults are so reluctant unless I give them something to actually kill first! Feeding live is just way easier, as it’s unnatural for a ball python to eat a rat corpse. They want to kill and eat it still warm, and super fresh!

Exactly! Most of the time, my Ball Pythons act like they are scared to death of the dancing rat corpses at feeding time and just want to escape and hide from them. I am very curious to find out if my Lesser girl can be tricked into eating a nice warm frozen/thawed now, though, since she has been snatching live ones up immediately for a couple of months. I'm going to wait until (hopefully) after she has laid eggs to try it, though. She's slamming live rats like a true killer and seemingly building follicles right now, so I don't wanna rock the boat...