Quote Originally Posted by elevatethis
There's a dynamic of the whole "live vs dead" arguement that I think gets left out sometimes...I'd like to preserve my snake's natural instincts to ID and strike and constrict etc etc as opposed to just tossing a dead item that they just begin to swallow w/o effort. I mean, we gotta realize that these guys are wild animals after all. There's a reason that zoo's often hide the food they give to scavenger type animals or attach meat to moving ziplines in cheetah cages and thiings like that. Let the ball python be a ball python! What do y'all think?
Not me ... once you take a ball python and stick it in a cage it's not really the same wild animal anymore ... zoos do those things to exercise mammals that normally in the wild would have hundreds of acres of territory to roam on, but have you ever seen a zoo feed their crocs? They just toss the food in. I feed live because it's the cheapest and most convenient method I have available for feeding my collection and it works for my snakes ... if the same were true about F/T, then that's what I'd do.

-adam