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bladesparkLive feeding isn't evil.
Live feeding isn't inhumane.
Live feeding is stupid, but that's all. Letting your $.99 mouse kill your $100+ snake is just silly. (And they CAN kill the snake. Even if the mouse doesn't kill it right away, a badly mouse bitten snake often has to be put down.)
*evil grin* If you differ, feel free, but I'm going to think you're a bleeding heart, fluffy, PETA-like person. Dead mouse is dead mouse, whether it arrived frozen, or I twisted its little neck after I bought it or the snake strangled it. It's just as dead. If you think the way it dies matters to the mouse... well, please be prepared to offer up a darn good explanation, I've yet to hear one that didn't amount to "but the poor fluffy little thing suffered! *sniffsniff*" Because you know what's the funny thing? One way they kill feeder mice is by suffocating them. Yep. It's quite possible it'll get strangled either way. And when it boils right down to it, it's a mouse. Maybe it's the cat in me, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a mouse suffering a little bit, if that's what it takes to feed something else.
There's your FYI for the day, courtesy of stupid strangers who invade my lj and take issue with my opinions on feeder rodents.
Live feeding isn't inhumane.
Live feeding is stupid, but that's all. Letting your $.99 mouse kill your $100+ snake is just silly. (And they CAN kill the snake. Even if the mouse doesn't kill it right away, a badly mouse bitten snake often has to be put down.)
*evil grin* If you differ, feel free, but I'm going to think you're a bleeding heart, fluffy, PETA-like person. Dead mouse is dead mouse, whether it arrived frozen, or I twisted its little neck after I bought it or the snake strangled it. It's just as dead. If you think the way it dies matters to the mouse... well, please be prepared to offer up a darn good explanation, I've yet to hear one that didn't amount to "but the poor fluffy little thing suffered! *sniffsniff*" Because you know what's the funny thing? One way they kill feeder mice is by suffocating them. Yep. It's quite possible it'll get strangled either way. And when it boils right down to it, it's a mouse. Maybe it's the cat in me, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a mouse suffering a little bit, if that's what it takes to feed something else.
There's your FYI for the day, courtesy of stupid strangers who invade my lj and take issue with my opinions on feeder rodents.
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Date: 2007-10-02 08:15 am (UTC)What always got me on this topic was that every predator hunts live prey in the wild. Most of them probably start eating their prey before it's properly dead. That's perfectly natural. If a human did this deliberately to an animal, yes, I can see how that would be inhumane (and also gross). But allowing a predator to behave normally as it would in the wild? No. That's nature. Cruel perhaps (from an objective view point), but not inhumane.
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Date: 2007-10-03 12:29 pm (UTC)(I was going to type pretty much that exact same post, but she 1: beat me to it, and 2: spelled it better. >.>)