Frozen food can kill not injure your snake

[Sauzo]

I cant wait to see you try and feed a live rabbit to the boa. A rabbit can easily kill a boa if it isnt grabbed right. And same with jumbo rats.

Want proof? Grab a live jumbo rat in your hand and squeeze it hard and see what happens....

Sure there are stories of snakes dying from eating a bad FT rat. There are also stories of them getting 'bleached' from a funky FT rat where they lost all color. But like mentioned, there are far more horror stories about live feedings going bad than the FT issue.

And like mentioned, and i've stated this before too, live can carry parasite. Freezing tends to kill most of the parasite. If you feed live, you should get a fecal done every year.

I too started out feeding live when i was young and back before reptiles became a fashion pet. There was none of these FT companies etc so you really didnt have much a choice. I actually didnt feed the live rat to the snakes, i would kill it first by hitting it on the head real quick and make sure it was dead, not just knocked out as a dazed rat can be even more dangerous. Then i learned about cervical dislocation.

You're like the rebel snake owner, Dutti. You do everything that is pretty much opposite of what the practiced standard is in snake keeping. If it works for you, i guess go for it. Live feeding really isnt such a huge deal but your overfeeding, we have beaten a dead horse on that one and that one is a big deal lol.

And also like others have said, if you find a reputable source for rats, you should be fine. I mean Rodent Pro i believe had some issues with their rats a long time ago and i have been told by a few people, they buy lab surplus stuff so that would make me question them. Also i have heard recently of issues here and there with their quality being questionable. If i ordered online(which now that i have my limit of snakes for now), I'll use Perfect Prey aka Loxahatchee Rodents, Big Cheese Rodents or Layne Labs(i know the whole labs thing in the name but i guess they breed their own, not outsource lab surplus from a testing lab) or Monster Feeders for guinea pigs and piglets.