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**chuecafressds** · 10-09-2009, 03:44 AM

Pretty pathetic that someone would upload that and gloat about it, and as people have said in some of the Youtube comments :-

3: It's irresponsible to feed live bait to snakes, not because of any moral issues, but because of the potential damage the bait can inflict on the snake. I've heard of snakes getting their eyes bitten out by live rats before, it's a pretty dumb thing to risk (like some other idiot on Youtube who feeds live shrews to his monitor lizard, when some of them are actually venomous).

I´ve been keeping snakes for almost 20 years now,
point 3 isn´t really a valid one.
Sure once every full moon some dimwit throws in a rat or two, doesn´t stay with the animals, the snake maybe isn´t interested (maybe just not hungry or whatnot) and the rat starts chewing the crap out of the snake.
But fact it, feeding live prey actually has a few benefits vs frosted food.
A. Price, dead/frozen the food is always a bit more expensive (depending on the animal from a few cents up to a few €´s)
B. The nutritious value is higher (some vitamins are destroyed when frozen)
C. Natural Predatory instincts are preserved
D. Some snakes just don´t accept dead prey, and fiddling around in their Terrarium isn´t all that great.
and heck i bet their are a few more if i weren´t to lazy to google.
Most of the time i feed live mice/rats to my snakes, the irresponsible thing to do would be not staying present till the prey is dead, that´s about it.

btw feeding chicken is pretty lame anyways, the droppings are really stinky wet slushy ****,.. pretty disgusting.

10-09-2009, 03:44 AM	#8
chuecafressds Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Pretty pathetic that someone would upload that and gloat about it, and as people have said in some of the Youtube comments :- 3: It's irresponsible to feed live bait to snakes, not because of any moral issues, but because of the potential damage the bait can inflict on the snake. I've heard of snakes getting their eyes bitten out by live rats before, it's a pretty dumb thing to risk (like some other idiot on Youtube who feeds live shrews to his monitor lizard, when some of them are actually venomous). I´ve been keeping snakes for almost 20 years now, point 3 isn´t really a valid one. Sure once every full moon some dimwit throws in a rat or two, doesn´t stay with the animals, the snake maybe isn´t interested (maybe just not hungry or whatnot) and the rat starts chewing the crap out of the snake. But fact it, feeding live prey actually has a few benefits vs frosted food. A. Price, dead/frozen the food is always a bit more expensive (depending on the animal from a few cents up to a few €´s) B. The nutritious value is higher (some vitamins are destroyed when frozen) C. Natural Predatory instincts are preserved D. Some snakes just don´t accept dead prey, and fiddling around in their Terrarium isn´t all that great. and heck i bet their are a few more if i weren´t to lazy to google. Most of the time i feed live mice/rats to my snakes, the irresponsible thing to do would be not staying present till the prey is dead, that´s about it. btw feeding chicken is pretty lame anyways, the droppings are really stinky wet slushy ****,.. pretty disgusting.
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