Live Feeding "Accident" **graphic**

[Nanci]

From a local reptile shop...

Please only feed live as a last resort, and only when you can observe the animals.

Yes, this baby was euthanized.

 

[insomniac101]

Nanci, thanks for the reminder. People always ask why I don't feed live, and this is why. Poor thing!

Kathy

 

[spyderk]

Oh my goodness. This is definitely an example.

 

[nancyg]

Uggg I"m bookmarking that under 'don't feed live' to show people who question the quality of life my snakes get because I feed FT. Seriously, I have had people who thought they were worse off for eating FT. I tick off the checklist of reasons for feeding frozen and the subject usually drops. I suspect they don't think about things like parasites and humaneness.


'More natural" "Better' or 'Enrichment' my butt!

 

[Rich Z]

Yeah, man years ago I had something like that happen to a king snake from a mouse. That is a lesson you don't soon forget.

 

[Zeina]

Omg wow... That poor thing.
I don't have the heart to feed live, for the sake of my snake and the mouse.
I couldn't imagine my precious corn snakes going through something like this.

 

[Myca]

Ugh, that is terrible.

 

[crazyd82]

I was convinced to start feeding my BP live by a local pet shop. I never left her alone with the small rats for fear of this happening. The first 2 feedings went well. The 3rd she was bitten twice by the rat and she refused to eat afterward. The bites didn't hurt her any but I had to kill the rat which I didn't like having to do. I tried once more to feed live and she just seems to afraid of the rat. Needless to say I went back to f/t. It's just not the risk.

 

[daddio207]

There's 2 pet shops I would avoid !!
Recommending live over frozen especially if the BP is already eating FT is just so wrong.
The poor BP that was euthanized appears also to have either a stuck shed or was in its shed cycle when being fed. That pet shop has ALOT to learn !!!
I'm still amazed that after all these years stuff like this still happens with all the available info.

 

[Ravenessa]

I hate some people... Poor baby.. RIP <3

 

[MegF.]

Shame...I've seen some pretty bad bites recover given time...even ones that looked like that. That said, I was going to take a snake in rescue from someone but it evidently was killed by live prey before I could get it. There is NO benefit to feeding live....people who say it exercises the snake are full of it. A snake sitting in a box and grabbing a mouse that walks right up to it is not exercising....my snakes grab and constrict just as much as if it were live. They get more exercise because they aren't fed all the time....they actually hunt for food......THAT'S how a snake exercises in the wild...not by grabbing a mouse....

 

[Skull_Luv]

That poor baby they must have been in so much pain! How could the people caring for them not see that?

 

[Nanci]

I'm pretty sure that the way snakes sense pain is why this happens, as well as why they get burned if they lay on something too hot, instead of just leaving. Otherwise, when the rodent started chewing, the snake would leave. That they don't react- that's the problem. Well, the big problem.

 

[Skull_Luv]

Ah, I see basically they don't sense pain the same way we do. Still though.. how could you not see something like that starting to happen and stop it right away?

 

[MegF.]

People leave live rodents in the cage overnight.....unattended....rat gets hungry....rat eats snake.....people are stupid......Owner gets up in the morning and "Oh gosh!! I can't believed that happened!"