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

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

While I agree that it's perfectly fine to kill the mouse, I can see how people find live feeding inhumane. In the wild, mice get to escape and the snakes weed out the weaker rodents ... in the case of live feeding, not so much. It's like the humans who "hunt" by going to an enclosed space with a few deer placed inside or the ancient practice of throwing people to the lions. It's unsportsmanlike.

I personally don't mind live feeding, it's a pet after all and if it enjoys live mice, give it live mice. However, saying it's fine because that's what happens in nature is not accurate.