Touchy Subject?

[bikiescum2003]

Ive recently been burnt by one pet shop who sold me some rotten frozen mice, all of which i had to bin. these were from a very well known company, i think it was a issue in transit over a long distance.

Lesson learnt, avoid petshops that arent getting there frozen rodents from a local breeder.



Matt

had the same problem down here but they have now changed the packaging and it seems to have fixed the problem.. if its the same company

 

[Mysnakeau]

We've have never had any problems getting ours from QLD. But that won't be a thing anymore as we have just found a local breeder where we will now stock up our supplies from.

 

[Moreliaman]

Lets face it. Most people who feed live either do it because they get a kick out of watching it or makes them feel a lot more macho owning a snake that kills for it dinner.

Quite rightly said peter, IMO there is no reason what so ever to feed any captive snake live food & anyone that is having difficulity in getting their snake to feed on dead should seek help from a more experinced keeper in their area.
Dont know about Aus but in the Uk it's illegal to feed anything living with a back bone.
Insect's have an exoskeleton so your ok feeding them.

 

[Julie-anne]

I also heard that live feedings can increase the possibility of being tagged (as the snake is used to hunting/striking at living, moving objects), not sure how correct that one might be?

Also, a friend of mine had a snake die after a live feeding, we later found out that the petshop had just sprayed all the mice for lice/bugs etc as these live mice are being sold as PETS not food, their FEEDER mice are sold frozen.