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

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

How can live feeding be evil? Snakes aren't usually carrion eaters (to my knowledge)... what do they think the snakey does in the wild? Wait until mousies die of a heart attack after a long and fufilled life?


And they want to see cruel death? See what happens when they kitties find a mouse to play with

carrion

[aazhie.livejournal.com]

some snakes will feed opportunistically on dead prey, but they are born to hunt. Some like corn snakes are just less picky about the stae of the hunted prey, whether it is bird, rodent or rotten nasty unidentifiable carcass :P corns= garbage disposals lol!