I think in our modern life we're just so distanced from our meat it's hard for many of us to think of ourselves as killers of any kind of animal. Yet a couple generations ago we'd all be twisting chickens necks, butchering hogs, etc. just as a part of daily life.
I think it's important to not let an animal suffer, even a mouse. But it sounds like you know what you're doing, and how to kill it quickly. In fact, your way is probably a whole lot less traumatic than what the pig my dinner pork chop went through to die.
I think gassing must be a pretty awful way to go, too.
Anyway, this is from someone who has had both mice, rats, as pets, and at the same time, had to feed them to snakes.
I think people are probably just freaking about the hands-on nature of killing a mouse for your snake. They can't imagine doing it themselves, so they get all irate.
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Date: 2007-10-02 01:13 pm (UTC)I think it's important to not let an animal suffer, even a mouse. But it sounds like you know what you're doing, and how to kill it quickly. In fact, your way is probably a whole lot less traumatic than what the pig my dinner pork chop went through to die.
I think gassing must be a pretty awful way to go, too.
Anyway, this is from someone who has had both mice, rats, as pets, and at the same time, had to feed them to snakes.
I think people are probably just freaking about the hands-on nature of killing a mouse for your snake. They can't imagine doing it themselves, so they get all irate.