Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
...I'd have to disagree with that statement. Rat pups can be anything from a rat as young as 15 days when it's eyes open to a rat that is close to weaning age of anywhere from 3.5 to 5 weeks of age. That's a HUGE difference in prey size and a snake of only 105 grams is not likely to easily deal with a fat 5 week old pup. In this specific instance a large fuzzy rat or a very young pup rat would be the better suggestion I believe. Also this snake has been fed a very small prey item and I believe when doing prey increases it's best to slowly step that up and see how it goes over a few feedings.

I think with a new owner we all need to be very aware of giving extremely specific instructions so they don't end up with the wrong prey size and in the case of live feeding, a potentially harmful situation...
Yeah, I agree I always forget that there is a huge difference in gram weight with each of these rodent categories and I was sloppy to not give the gram weight along with the category name. My bad!!