Quote Originally Posted by reptilicious View Post
With beardies,gecko`s etc... feeding dead crickets/canned crickets is considered a bad thing to a lot of keepers,they say you should only feed live as it replicates their natural behaviour............

So why is it the other way round with snakes?

Feeding defrost rodents is easier in some ways, especially if your squeemish, A lot of people say that rodents will hurt your snake, and yes this happens sometimes, with my snakes if i fed 100 live i doubt 1 of them would get bit by the rodent, snakes are meant to feed live so they are experts in feeding, they have done it for thousands of years.
Also you get better feeders with live feeding.

As from the on snake keepers point of view, i can see why they may find it cruel, but they need to realise that its natural and theres thousands of snakes in the word at any one time doing exactly the same thing in the wild.

I once got a message on myspace... It said how cruel i was and that she keeps cats and dogs which are all vegetarians lol... sorry, but thats cruel!

she then went on to tell me that any animal in the world can become a vegetarian and that theres no reason why snakes cant become vege`s!!
Well i told her exactly where to go after trying to educate her and she wouldnt listen, she was a complete extremist!
O how dare you feed "live" crickets .They make nice music and stuff in the summer .Of course i am just joking here folks .