Psst.

[bladespark]

Live 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.

Comments

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

It is worth noting that most "primitive" (by which I mean "people who live in tribal communities, at a bronze or stone age level of technology") peoples clearly distinguish "pet" from "wild", across all types of animals. They'd not consider eating a pet goat, or dog, but a wild goat or dog is fair game.

What's interesting about Western cultures, especially Britain and America, is that we extend our concept of "pet" to whole species, not just particular instances of them.

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

Oh, this wasn't an argument against you - it was a point about how unusual Western cultures are that they produce this kind of argument.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*nods* We have a very screwy culture. Particularly when it produces something like PETA, whose more extreme proponents teach that a flatworm is no different from a human.

[pet-tiger.livejournal.com]

Yes, because a flatworm is going to discover the cure for cancer. *rollseyes*