I know that many people all over the world feed their snakes live food but this is not necessarily the best thing to do in captivity. We must remember neither animal, the snake or the prey item is in their natural wild setting, they are both trapped in a box together. Snakes are not always hungry and it has been known for the prey animal to badly damage the snake by biting it, the prey animal is fighting for it’s life after all. I live in the UK where it is illegal to feed live animals to other live animals in captivity. If a snake is a difficult feeder we have to find ways around the problem, one simple solution is to dip the defrosted rodent into a bowl of hot water then present it to the snakes preferably with a pair of tongs unless you like getting bitten by mistake
the heat coming from the food item from the hot water is often enough to make the snake believe it is alive.
Tip for feeding a large python who will only eat rats, pop a small defrosted rat on top of the defrosted rabbits head as he eats the rat the rabbit will go down too, please always use proper feeding tongs especially with large snakes.
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