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03-17-2005, 06:47 AM
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Hots & live feeding
Just out of curiosity, do venomous snakes incur injuries from live food items just as nonvens do, or do they get ticked off and envenomate the intended prey item with a defensive strike? I do not keep hots, nor do I intend to. This is purely for curiosity's sake. |
03-17-2005, 07:04 AM
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Yes and no. The only thing you will ever find predictable about keeping venomous snakes is that they are unpredictable. Once you ever start lumping behavioral characteristics into set rules, you put your and your animals lives in danger. On the rare occasions I have ever fed live, my copperheads strike and then run and hide and wait for it to die from as far away as they can get. I offered a live fuzzy mouse with eyes still closed the other day to a pyg so I could get an idea of venom potency. Nora and Brad were here. She followed it around and kept sniffing but never would touch it. She just seemed really currious of her new pet. So I took it out and gave her a f/t one later and she gobbled it up. Snakes are weird. |
03-17-2005, 04:36 PM
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Agreed!!  
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03-17-2005, 06:11 PM
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yeah i have a picture of brad n brett watching the pygmy...like 2 kids in a candy store..lol its kinda cute actually too..
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03-17-2005, 06:58 PM
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JS, what kind of hots do you own, and how many of them? i think i could handle owning a large burm or something, but never a hot. |
03-17-2005, 07:33 PM
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I have had a mouse kill kill a Pygmy before and a rat killed a 5' Eastern Diamondback. One of the concerns when feeding live to constrictors is that the rodent can do damagewhile it is being constricted. With venomous, they are "generally" strike and release, so that is not as much of a concern. The main concern when feedinglive to hots is that the snake will not strike or envenomate the prey and the rodent is left to nibble. |
03-17-2005, 07:33 PM
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I just have a few.
9 various coppeheads (6 nothern, 1 southern that probably isn't all southern, 1 broadband, and a southern x transpecos)
1 canebrake rattlesnake
1 Florida cottonmouth
1 pymy rattlesnake |
03-17-2005, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by rex322
JS, what kind of hots do you own, and how many of them? i think i could handle owning a large burm or something, but never a hot. |
when i was at js's house, i was tryin to take pics of some of his copperheads and brett's all just open the door, they wont go after you...or something to that effect..n let me tell you i have never been more nervous sticking a camera in that enclosure even thou the door was only half open...having copperhead's face being only 2 ft from the lens...lol
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