W00t! along with a wtf?

Whats the w00t for you ask? Well, my girl, just ate her second hopper mouse. As you all know I had trouble feeding her last time, had to turn the lights out and all that. This time, took her out, weighed her, put her back in her hide, dropped mouse in, BAM! attack from the hide, you go girl! Not even sure if it was done twitching when she started to eat it though. Now my male, he strikes fast and hard, then plays with the dead mouse for about 15 min then eats it. Im so proud of her! 61g is what she weighs in at now. :rockon: :carrot: :D

Now, for the wtf part. So at the store I have the mouse and the hopper and im checking out and these two girls come up to me, a bit older, and ask if I am gonna feed those to something. So I said ya, I own two ball pythons. So the one asked why I dont feed them the dead ones and I explained about thawing them out, and that disgusted both of them and one agreed why I buy them live. The other, a bit of a snappy little B**ch, was like, why would you own something like that? whats the point? So I asked what she owns, and she said a german sheperd. So I asked why? She said it doesnt it eat live animals. Then she added that it did get out of its cage, ripped down her blinds, tore up all the wood on the frame of the door, and then took a dump on the shades it pulled down. I just smiled and paid and added the comment,

"Last I checked, my snakes dont poo on the floor, tear down the blinds, or rip up wood frames." and left.

My question, why do people feel they have a right to judge us cause we own a pet that eats other animals and have enough responsibility to do what is needed to be done and feed em?

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Originally Posted by SnakeEyes

My question, why do people feel they have a right to judge us cause we own a pet that eats other animals and have enough responsibility to do what is needed to be done and feed em?

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I haven't encountered anyone who's reacted that way yet. I'll say this, though--I'm not a vegetarian myself, so I have no qualms with my PET eating meat ;)

Give me some med-rare steak any day of the week. :lick: I can understand why Auryn thinks mice are delicious! I like my red meat still kinda bloody myself ;)

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

Give me some med-rare steak any day of the week. :lick: I can understand why Auryn thinks mice are delicious! I like my red meat still kinda bloody myself ;)

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Hehe damn straight!

I want to strangle people like that sometimes. Often I find the people who fit into this category to be prissy teenage girls. I had an encounter like this before. I simply remarked my boa could eat her chihuahua and that seemed to be the end of it ;)

i've never met a vegan dog either.

ok, my baby girl is done eating, on the warm hide, and sleeping, my male is JUST now starting to eat, and hes eating it backwards.....*slaps hand on forehead* why are males so dumb no what the species?

It's a sad fact we all have issues and preconceptions.


All the snakes I keep at the moment all eat F/T ( when they do eat, stroppy little madams) but if they didn't I would have no qualms about feeding live using the correct supervision.

I don't think they are intentionally "judging" as much as "not understanding" -If you asked them to look at the ingredients list of dog food and go forth and kill and mince the listed components I'm sure they would object just as hard.

Some people prefer not to think about these things - as long as they do not try and dictate what other people do to keep their own pets healthy I'm happy to allow them their delusions.

I feel obliged at this point to say the above is nothing more than my personal opinion.

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And I would liike to remain neutral when it comes to arguing about how dumb the male of the species is. :P

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dr del

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Originally Posted by dr del

If you asked them to look at the ingredients list of dog food and go forth and kill and mince the listed components I'm sure they would object just as hard.
dr del

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I can just see the facial expressions already...! :bolt::puke:

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Give me some med-rare steak any day of the week. :lick: QUOTE]

Nice choice of steak ^^ *thumbs up*

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

Give me some med-rare steak any day of the week. :lick: I can understand why Auryn thinks mice are delicious! I like my red meat still kinda bloody myself ;)

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Personally... I like my meat so rare it's practically endangerd. You got a problem, call PETA. :popcorn:

Ive had similar experiences. One girl i work with almost cried when i talk about feeding my snakes but whatever. I explain it like this, if i along with many others do not do this in a controlled enviornment and ensure the safety of it, it will just happen in the wild...its life, the food chain...do you complain about eating steak or chicken or turkey on thanksgiving? i bet not :) Most of us eat animals ourselves... but hey oppinions are like :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:s, everybodies got one :) lol