I’ve stumbled across videos on YouTube that show snake owners feeding them a live rate or rabbit or whatever. Some people in the comments say well that’s just nature, others say it’s animal abuse. What do you think?
On reddit I saw a snake owner saying what they normally do is kill the prey beforehand with a CO2 chamber and freeze it, and that there’s no reason to feed live. Like the snakes don’t need it. If that’s true I guess it’s needless suffering then. Weird that these videos are so available on YouTube then.
If you have a snake that you can feed dead to, then do so. Many snakes, however, will not eat dead prey. Luckily, I have a rescued ball python that doesn’t mind a bit. We buy 2 dozen frozen rats at a time. It lasts almost a year, and our particular snake is fine with it. Others I have known, are NOT.