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Most of the shot you buy nowadays is lead-free, I believe.......or at least the lead free is very common. I know you can't use lead shot anywhere around here for hunting any kind of waterfowl.
That said........I still wouldn't take the chance with any of my critters feeding wild-caught prey when food items that you KNOW are healthy is so readily available. Besides the parasite factor, who's to say that animal hasn't just finished ingesting some poisoned bait that someone tired of all the squirrels or rats or whatever put out for them?
That, and maybe I'm just used to feeding my picky Ball Pythons, but I wouldn't want to take the chance of my snakes deciding they like squirrel better than rats or rabbits, and deciding to only eat squirrel. That could get inconvenient to say the least when your population runs out.
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