Thanks for the article Brian. I just finished reading through it. I can see some valid points in it. However if an animal is fed in abundance, larger meals like some people agree to doing its whole life I cannot see where it would benefit the animals health. I can understand feeding more frequently before breeding season to allow the animals to build up a good fat reserve, but to allow them to build up fat like this their whole life makes me think what kind of damage it could be doing to them. I do know that in larger boids for the most part, excessive fat is claimed to build in their organs. As well as just reading into that I have a different opinion on feeding. Feeding the animals larger less frequent prey items in my opinion isn't as healthy. I see it as them consuming smaller more frequent meals, they get more nutrients out of it because they have more tissue per square inch they are digesting, as well as the prey animal takes less time to digest due to its smaller size. Where as larger less frequent could be less nutritious as the prey item takes much longer to digest, as well as the prey item has less tissue per square inch that the Rock Python is digesting. Only time will tell, and it's one of the reasons I am doing this I can see larger less frequent prey items stressing the animal as well, because it restricts movement more, and the animal has to rest while digesting it leaving it in a vulnerable state. Also a larger prey item in the animals digestive track could do some damage if the animal is picked up at any time, moved the wrong way, moves the wrong way itself etc. These are some of the factors I'm looking into as well as the breeding aspect I had become curious about just recently.