buck said:foxysnake said:To use humans as an example as Boa did, think of male bodybuilders who are on large amount of steroids to stimulate muscle growth and than think of what it does to their, umm, reproductive organs
I don't mean to be picky but this is really a poor analogy. The effects of a performance enhancing drug on a human and overfeeding a snake have absolutely nothing in common. If you want to use humans as an example a better analogy would be that the effects of overfeeding snakes and overfeeding humans are exactly the same.
TrueBlue said:True Ashley but the point Im trying to make is that the baby python that has minimal feeds in the first year will in most cases live a long trouble free life yet the baby that gets stuffed full every 5 days in the first year has a dam good chance of having a greatly shortened life. I have seen this many times. 5 days is not long enough for the animal to completly digest and pass everything so you end up with a python that is 24/7 digesting food and this is definitly IMO a recipe for disaster. their metabolisim needs rest and snakes feed like that get none.
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