Why feed reptiles frozen rodents over live ones?”
Although some people mistakenly believe that live food is better than frozen for their birds of prey and reptiles, frozen rodents are actually the preferred choice of many professional breeders, wildlife rehabilitators, zoos, and hobbyists. They prefer frozen rodents because of their convience (they can be stored easily in large quantities, they are easier and cheaper to receive as shipments, they are humanely pre-killed and so don’t require difficulty in euthanizing), because it takes away the many drawbacks of either having to maintain a live animal colony or repeatedly go to the pet shop for small numbers of live animals, because they end up being a better choice economically, and finally, but most importantly, because they are a safer and healthier choice for the animals under their care. Often live prey will fight back and bite or scratch and wound the reptile, and animals caught live or bought from unreliable sources may harbor all sorts of diseases and parasites that could then
