Quote Originally Posted by Loft Lizard View Post
I do not think anyone is giving the OP a hard time... they are giving them information. That is a good thing...



I agree with SI on this. Feeding smaller prey. I feed my corn FT but she can take several live crawler rat pups over a larger FT. But out of respect for the pups I do not feed them.

Do they pose a threat to her (?)... not at all.

As far as snakes in captivity lacking a killer instinct. I do not really buy that. Snakes are not domesticated like cats and dogs, etc. I really doubt that this early on we have bred out a killer instinct. And being that snakes are still being pulled from the wild, I doubt the bloodlines are that *clean* yet.

bruce
I should make a video of my corn snake feeding. It's rather amusing.. I don't know if its just because shes been fed f/t or pk all her life but she has never put a tough grip on the mouse.

She grabs it, wraps around it slightly and when I let go of it with the tongs she takes her mouth off of it and it plops over..

She never was fed live, so feeding her live now could be bad. :]


If you know what your doing I don't think whacking is that bad. I personally can't preform a CD.. Its makes sense and when other people do it, it looks easy.. but I don't know why I can't do it.
I've never had a mouse show any living reaction after a whack. It'll twitch and I'll check for a heartbeat and feel none.