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Another Example Of Live Feeding Gone Wrong (Very Graphic)

If you have the time to convert them properly then converting a young BP to F/T is not generally difficult. However, at a pet store, it's not always possible to scent the food or leave the snake in with it overnight, or other ways of converting.

If you start a BP on F/T from the beginning there won't be an issue, though. It's not like they will only take live from the get go.
 
lilwing89 said:
I've never had a BP. Is it really that difficult to get a neonate to eat a F/T? The carpet breeders I've spoken with have all told me that carpets readily take F/T, the difficulty is to get them to switch from mice to rats or vice versa.
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From what I've heard, a large number of the hatchling BPs in the pet stores are W/C or from W/C gravid females. Some of them haven't eaten at all or might have had a few meals before being shipped to the States but it sounds like they are generally given live in that case.
 
Yeah... I had a feeding go wrong last night... I scarfed down some Mcnuggets, and this morning I destroyed a toilet with flaming diarrhea, lol.
 
That is absolutely horrible!!!
I Have a different opinion then most, I have no problem with live feeding AS LONG AS YOU WATCH IT TILL IT EATS IT!!! Or knock the mouse out. You can also dislocate the spine using a pen, press down on the neck and pull the tail, mouse stays alive for a short period of time, twitches, stays warm. Still live and not dangerous, (unless you can't stomach the thought of doing that to the mouse) but if that's the case feed F/T.
 
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