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Old 06-09-2015, 06:57 PM   #10
Helenthereef
I have fed my snakes the occasional dog-killed rat, but I did worry a lot as to whether it would have been near any poison. I also use hand-caught house geckos for my reptile eaters.

However, I must say that I do this because I do not have access to cleanly-reared feeder animals, and if I had access to those I probably would not be using wild-caught feeders.

I guess you are looking at wild animals not house pests, so the poison chances would be minimised. Personally I probably would use wild animals that I knew FOR CERTAIN were living in open country away from houses, and only if I knew EXACTLY how they had died (are you shooting?), but I think I'm probably very much in the minority.

I do think that freezing would kill most parasites likely to be transferred between mammals and reptiles, but the risk is that not all would be, and you'd want a dedicated freezer in case of fleas, ticks etc pre-freezing.