Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
Some will never eat f/t, some may eat f/t right away and some may switch eventually.


Now since you're new here I'm going to tell you about tossing around statements like: "A bad breeder might feed live because it may be easier on them, too cheap to invest in a humane way to kill."

You don't need to assume. I will tell you the realistic reason since you don't seem to know or understand. When you have 1000+ snakes, you breed your own rats, as it's cheaper than buying. Thawing out different sizes in random numbers with ball pythons who can be entirely picky would easily take more time than you realize. If you had experience with this in any aspect then you would understand that.

Now look at it this way, they don't have the time to make sure that everything eats, especially when you deal with babies. Sometimes you have to let babies be for a while to let them eat, which means you will check on them later or the next day, depending on what all you have going on. If you did this with frozen thawed then you would have an extremely stinky room. By putting rat pinkies or rat fuzzies you can let them be in there and check later. Also with mouse hoppers the movement triggers a snakes feeding response, so it's not that they're a bad breeder or cheap. It's that they know from experience how to do things. So before you chime in, please try to know what you're talking about.
I find it funny you and Craig are claiming my post is not true, and go on about like I told the person to feed his snake veggies instead. I answered his question, you didn't lol.

BUT my statement clearly stated a BAD breeder MAY do something for a particular reason, you claim I shouldn't assume, yet you went ahead and assumed I said or meant all breeders. You're also ASSUMING that he bought it from a breeder who has a 1000 snakes. Last time I checked in Canada, and I'm going to ASSUME in the US, there are a lot more smaller/personal breeders than the larger breeders/dealers. And not all Breeders are the same.

And then you continue to discuss it as if I now screwed the person over, funny thing about forums is people think they are experts based on how long they've been here for or how many posts.

Yeah I'm going to defend my words and yeah I find the extra comments weren't necessary, the extra information was helpful and gives people another view to look at, but was more of, let me come in here, ignore the main question and just go off about how bad this person's assuming comment was.

So I'm going to stick with my original comment as being useful