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A Perfect Strike!

So he does take prekilled but you feed live anyway? Generally, this forum frowns on feeding live if the snake takes prekilled. Feeding live is proven to be dangerous to snakes in captivity, it has in the past lead to the injury and even the death of many snakes. It is considered an unnecessary danger for your snake. I highly recommend feeding prekilled foods from now on, even if it does take some trying. 3 weeks really isn't all that long for a snake to go without eating, especially when you're converting them to prekilled foods.
 
Just be careful, OK? Monti is a beautiful snake. If he hits the mouse wrong it might be able to bite him really really badly in its struggles & mouse bites can be nasty. And if he ISN'T hungry for some reason and he is left alone with a live mouse, the consequences can be even worse, so if you feed live, supervise him until you are SURE the mouse is dead & on its way down Monti's throat, OK? That's the reason why this forum frowns on live feeding, we have all seen pictures of injuries inflicted by rodents on snakes.
 
Oh c'mon, give the OP a break... I feed more than half of my 29 snakes live prey, and haven't ever had a problem. They don't have CO2 chambers & freezers in the wild, ya know? :D

Cool video, thanks for sharing! I love how corns wrap their whole bodies around, as opposed to my BPs who only use their necks... pretty neat.
 
Lolo, I didn't think I was flaming the OP. I commented on my concerns but didn't criticize. I'm not going to flame you either. In the wild I suspect they get injured too, and don't have access to veterinarians, and I suspect the outcome isn't good. I just don't want any of that to happen to much loved pets. I didn't tell the OP not to feed live, I just asked him to supervise his beautiful corn for the corn's safety.
 
Yeah I know they eat live in the wild. They get parasites, injuries, scars and sometime die too in the wild.
But this isn’t the wild.

To me this is just getting off on feeding live.
 
I wasn't aiming that directly at you, wstphal... it's a common cause of arguments on this particular board.
 
Lennycorn said:
Yeah I know they eat live in the wild. They get parasites, injuries, scars and sometime die too in the wild.
But this isn’t the wild.

To me this is just getting off on feeding live.
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To each his/her own... as long as the feeding is supervised, I don't see a problem with it. As for myself, I certainly don't do it to "get off" - and would LOVE if all of mine readily ate frozen/thawed. But I keep mostly pythons (who are much pickier than corns), and got sick of throwing away leftovers every week. Anyway, back to the regularly scheduled program. ;)
 
To the OP, that is a very pretty snake with a healthy appetite and feeding response.

I think the reason behind the video is the fact that the OP was proud of their corn snake and its ability to constrict its prey. And like one of the posters said, they had never seen a corn snake constrict like that, so it is informative to some.

To others it is just yet another reason to go ZOMG LIVE FOOD NOOOO, to people in this forums. This is always going to be a topic of debate here but it does get tiring after awhile.

Personally I see no problems with feeding live as long as the snake can handle it and is supervised.
 
Lennycorn said:
Yeah I know they eat live in the wild. They get parasites, injuries, scars and sometime die too in the wild.
But this isn’t the wild.

To me this is just getting off on feeding live.
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Wow the getting off comment was is the exact reason I'm losing patience with this forum, there's always got to be a difficult bitchey person. Getting off. What a jerk!
 
PS the vid was showing a perfect strike, Grabbed the face (no bites) coiled around the torso (pinning one leg so maybe not a textbook perfect strike) and the prey was dead in under 1 minute.. And I film everything, IF the mouse bit my snake I would have had it on film and posted it as a "dangers of feeding live" video and you would be singing a different song buddy.
 
Bammer said:
PS the vid was showing a perfect strike, Grabbed the face (no bites) coiled around the torso (pinning one leg so maybe not a textbook perfect strike) and the prey was dead in under 1 minute.. And I film everything, IF the mouse bit my snake I would have had it on film and posted it as a "dangers of feeding live" video and you would be singing a different song buddy.
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Yeah, it was perfect. I do agree. And I am VERY glad you supervise, that's all I really want. I'm done with this thread but I'm also OK & not mad because you gave me the info I wanted & needed, you are right there watching every time. Good enough.
 
This was a cool to see. I feed my wormlings f/t and had never seen a corn eat live. I had no idea how they killed their prey. I will stick with f/t but very cool to see and your snake is beautiful!
 
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