Quote Originally Posted by Egapal View Post
I find myself defending me F/T choice more often than not. Your story is one of the big reasons I started with F/T. I know the risk is low but I am just not going to unless the risk is outweighed by something else, like a snake that won't eat for a long time and for no good reason. I really don't understand why people ask me why I feed F/T when those same people feed their cat(s) / dog(s) kibble and have no problem cooking up a frozen steak. Because its safe, convenient, and the death of the animal is removed from my house.
Even if the animal won't eat for, say, two weeks, there are so many tricks to use to avoid live prey. Personally, I have had to use this trick twice, once with a new BP that wasn't eating due to slow acclimation and once with a friends CRB that wouldn't eat while recovering from a bad RI, and never had any trouble getting a feeding reaction. Braining is messy and not the most pleasant thing to do, but you crack the skullcap on a f/t rat or mouse and ANY snake is going to have a very strong feed reaction.

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