Reading comprehension not a real strong point for you two tonight or what?
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Snakes do not eat only when they are hungry or when they *should* ingest prey to maintain a healthy calorie intake, they frequently eat simply because food has become avaliable.
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Are you going to argue that snakes will NOT take items which are instinctively reccognized as prey? That feeding responses and associated triggers do not exist? There are some periods of time when certain species aren't going to be inclined to feed but discounting those situations, boids are ambush predators, they grab when the grabbing is good- it is up to a keeper to regulate prey intake and ensure that they do not get too much OR too little.
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It is possible to powerfeed an animal to an unhealthy level.
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Do you disagree with that statement? Are you making a contention that those five foot two year old animals some people are breeding with the pinheads and fatty liver disease and renal failure are healthy... or that the problems are NOT a result of being overfed?
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Offering food too frequently and allowing the animal's instincts to dictate their intake is not going to be healthy long term. Much better to use a healthy schedule and modify the feeding regime based on the age, weight, breeding condition, gender and general health of the animal than to say "Offer it food constantly, when it eats, it needed it." that's just as bad as advice suggesting NOT to feed until an animal deficates.
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Did I specifically accuse either of you two of offering food too frequently or criticize either of your feeding schedules? While it has become evident that neither of you can understand written english I would still place you in the category of offering food as is appropriate to maintain a healthy caloric intake. Both of you claim to have enough experience with the animals to know what a healthy animal looks like and how often and how much should be fed to maintain them in that condition... Why would you choose to think those comments were direct criticisms of YOU? They were general statements about possibilities and there was no reason to assume they were directed at any given individual's husbandry.
As a simple experiment for the brain trust here (Seriously now, if we want to start throwing around credentials, you two jokers haven't got any more than any other backyard amateur)- you say your animals are fed every five days and maintain a healthy weight... Great, I'm NOT saying there is anything wrong with that because I have not seen your animals... Take one or two of those animals on a five day feeding schedule and bump it up to every three days. Or every other day. You let me know if they still take food when it's offered in an identical manner in every way except frequency. My bet is that they'd probably feed every three more often than not... Of course, you don't feed every three... Why not? Because they don't NEED it, it would be power feeding and would cause health problems... WHICH IS ALL I WAS SAYING WAS A POSSIBILITY TO BEGIN WITH.
Damn, so busy patting one another on the back that neither of you took the time to understand a bloody thing I wrote before arguing with it.
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