Disclaimer! Feeding pics in this thread.
My aunt and I seem to be having a bit of a debate over the fact that I feed my snakes frozen/thawed instead of live. Apparently I'm ruining my snakes lives by not allowing them to be real hunters and the only reason I don't feed live MUST be because I just don't want to see them eat live. Oh boy. How do you make a live feeder snake owner understand your reasonings for feeding frozen/thawed? FWIW I have no qualms at all about watching a snake eat live, but I think it can be risky to feed live since the captive snake has no way of escaping if the rodent decides to attack in defense. I've heard too many stories of snakes getting badly injured or killed from rodent attacks. My aunt reminds me it's not too late to make my hatchling male a real hunter and start feeding him live... Oh boy.
Anyways, I pulled Aneira out for her scheduled feeding tonight. I decided to snap a few pics.
She gets fed in a separate tub since I keep her on aspen and don't want her to accidentally swallow the aspen.
She's so pretty
Tried putting a blanket under the bin as a backdrop...
Feeding time
It may be dead already, but she still "hunts" it
*more*
My aunt and I seem to be having a bit of a debate over the fact that I feed my snakes frozen/thawed instead of live. Apparently I'm ruining my snakes lives by not allowing them to be real hunters and the only reason I don't feed live MUST be because I just don't want to see them eat live. Oh boy. How do you make a live feeder snake owner understand your reasonings for feeding frozen/thawed? FWIW I have no qualms at all about watching a snake eat live, but I think it can be risky to feed live since the captive snake has no way of escaping if the rodent decides to attack in defense. I've heard too many stories of snakes getting badly injured or killed from rodent attacks. My aunt reminds me it's not too late to make my hatchling male a real hunter and start feeding him live... Oh boy.
Anyways, I pulled Aneira out for her scheduled feeding tonight. I decided to snap a few pics.
She gets fed in a separate tub since I keep her on aspen and don't want her to accidentally swallow the aspen.
She's so pretty
Tried putting a blanket under the bin as a backdrop...
Feeding time
It may be dead already, but she still "hunts" it
*more*