Man feeds puppy to boa.. wait... what?

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Originally Posted by jeffnme

BAM!

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Yay Emeril Lagasse!!! :P

There you go qiksilver. I'm not the only one who has stated this more than once.

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

Do you see many people eating dogs here, or things of that nature? Do you see many here feeding off dogs to their other animals?...

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Absolutely not, but we, the reptile-keeping live animal-feeding community need to be very careful and pay close attention to the issues that happen within our hobby.

I don't know about others, but what I'm saying is this: What is to stop the next person who sees someone feed a burmese python a rabbit from calling the police and reporting animal cruelty? Look at the U.K - you aren't allowed, by law, to feed live prey to reptiles. If stuff like this snowballs, we're right behind them.

I do think its wrong to feed a puppy to a snake but I do not think someone should be put in jail for it. While I think it was wrong for him to do that, the precedent it sets for the rest of us is far more important.

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Originally Posted by qiksilver

but what's to say that at the conception of proper reptile husbandry dogs were found to be most nutritious and that was accepted instead of rats.

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If they were, I don't see it going far at all....

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

There you go qiksilver. I'm not the only one who has stated this more than once.

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congratulations then. but i don't care where it was done, different people have different notions about things and whether that makes them right or wrong is not for you to decide.

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

If they were, I don't see it going far at all....

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ya know, i also find it interesting, that all you're trying to do is prove me wrong. that's too bad, i thought this was about other things.

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Absolutely not, but we, the reptile-keeping live animal-feeding community need to be very careful and pay close attention to the issues that happen within our hobby.

I don't know about others, but what I'm saying is this: What is to stop the next person who sees someone feed a burmese python a rabbit from calling the police and reporting animal cruelty? Look at the U.K - you aren't allowed, by law, to feed live prey to reptiles. If stuff like this snowballs, we're right behind them.

I do think its wrong to feed a puppy to a snake but I do not think someone should be put in jail for it. While I think it was wrong for him to do that, the precedent it sets for the rest of us is far more important.

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I can agree with you on this. I stated before, it hurts the Giant keepers first, and later on trickles down to the smaller, more manageable species and effects the entire hobby. It's something we all need to be aware of, and help prevent. While some may say, or do the same about rabbits; rabbits are considered a feeder animal for more than just reptiles. I don't believe this would go very far....but something that needs to be kept under some "supervision".

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Originally Posted by qiksilver

congratulations then. but i don't care where it was done, different people have different notions about things and whether that makes them right or wrong is not for you to decide.

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Your right.... I'll leave that to the court :8:

As for the different people having different notions....sure. If you don't care where it was done, you might want to check again and start caring. You may think this is a game now, or not that bad...but what happens when you lose your right to keep your animals because of something like this?..

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Originally Posted by qiksilver

ya know, i also find it interesting, that all you're trying to do is prove me wrong. that's too bad, i thought this was about other things.

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You give me too much credit...:8:

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Originally Posted by qiksilver

congratulations then. but i don't care where it was done, different people have different notions about things and whether that makes them right or wrong is not for you to decide.

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but where it happened there are laws against this.

Ones notions have nothing to do with it.

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

I can agree with you on this. I stated before, it hurts the Giant keepers first, and later on trickles down to the smaller, more manageable species and effects the entire hobby. It's something we all need to be aware of, and help prevent. While some may say, or do the same about rabbits; rabbits are considered a feeder animal for more than just reptiles. I don't believe this would go very far....but something that needs to be kept under some "supervision".

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Absolutely.

I do think that the reptile community needs to be aware that the majority of the public like cutes furry animals and doesn't appreciate the fact that they are food for the pets we hold equally dear.

I do think that all of the d-bags on youtube who post videos of their burms eating rabbits, baby chickens, etc, need to grow up and stop flaunting their activities which are nothing more than cries to get attention. All of those "shock-videos" and feeding pictures do a disservice to the hobby.

As much as we love our snakes and want others to share in that, we MUST be considerate of other peoples' feelings by keeping some aspects of the hobby quiet.