I have a confliction.

Personally I don't think jokes about delibritely killing pets as a very funny joke myself.
Feeding someone's pet rat to your snake is really not any different than them taking a shovel to your snake. The fact that snakes eat rats means nothing. The rat is a PET rat belonging to another person.
Secondly, making the joke, especially if you are doing it to your sisters, only perpetrates a hate for snakes. Don't make the job of education about reptiles harder.
I know, next it will be "Can't you take a joke?" Nope. Not when it refers to killing someone's pets. It's just not funny to me.
Wolfy

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

Maybe I missed the point of the post? I was under the assumption that you were actually considering feeding your sisters' pets to your snake on purpose. I certainly hope that's not the case--so I'll just concur with everyone else and say: don't let your sisters' pets and your pets near one another.

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I read it exactely as you did...which is really really messed up.

I have two snakes, a dog, a bird, and a younger brother....ok, the brother doesnt count as a pet, but he should. Anyways, they all get along fine. The snakes are in their cages and the dog owns the house. I have on several occassions taken my oldest snake out and when handling him have shown him to my dog to see what her reaction is, so far all she does is sniffs it and runs and gets one of her toys and wants me to play with her. I have even put him on the floor and shown him to my dog to see if that would change her reaction, it did not. The reason I have done this was to see if when I am there, to control the situation, if nmy dog would snap at him or attack him, incase he somehow escapes I know i dont have to worry about my dog using him as a play toy.

But as far as feeding your sisters pet's to your snake, thats f'd up.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

Personally I don't think jokes about delibritely killing pets as a very funny joke myself.
Feeding someone's pet rat to your snake is really not any different than them taking a shovel to your snake. The fact that snakes eat rats means nothing. The rat is a PET rat belonging to another person.
Secondly, making the joke, especially if you are doing it to your sisters, only perpetrates a hate for snakes. Don't make the job of education about reptiles harder.
I know, next it will be "Can't you take a joke?" Nope. Not when it refers to killing someone's pets. It's just not funny to me.
Wolfy

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Note the little smilies in his post (winks) indicating just kidding. Not to mention there was nothing "delibritely" indicating he was going to kill their pets. His joke was what to tell his sisters when they disappeared.

So yes the next question is "Can't you take a joke?" No issue if you can't, unfortunately not everyone is born with a sense of humor. As we ALL know emotion cannot be shown in email (or posts)...but it does seem lately that a lot of people instantly jump to the wrong conclusion about a person's intent.

So to the original poster...set us all straight was this a joke or are you serious?

um... if it is a joke its not a good one, it doesn't even make any sense, what are you even saying are you saying only you are allowed your choice of pet? and what's a confliction? so first off, let us know if this is a joke, and second off grow up please

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Originally Posted by qiksilver

um... if it is a joke its not a good one

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Now that I agree with :disbelief

IMplieing that their pets would disappear after mentioning that his pet snake could kill one, and could eat the others IS implieing he would delibritely kill the pets. Unless he regualrly lets his snake run around the house loose, which is some of the worst husbandry I've seen.
I've got a sense of humor, but it doesn't extend to subjects of child molestation, killing pets, and several other subjects I just don't think are funny.
To me if someone said in a post that their brother had a snake, and they had a shovel, and how should he tell the brother that the snake was gone, would imply he wanted to harm the snake. Somehow this post is different to you I guess.. or maybe that would somehow be different. Smileys or not, it's just not real funny to kill pets. Maybe he was making a joke, and just can't tell it right, and it came out sounding like he's a real jerk. I don't know.
Wolfy

Is it common to kill snakes with shovels? I saw it once... asked these big manly men what kind of snake it was... they didn't know. I asked if it was a threat to them, they said no. I called them a bunch of pussies, and my father sped off so as not to let me finish my rant and start a fight.

a men casey,, we live in the country and it makes me mad when the peeps around here shoot or use a shovel to kill the red bellies and black snakes... my dad normally gets one in his garage every year and he catches them and releases them back into the woods. :snake:

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

To me if someone said in a post that their brother had a snake, and they had a shovel, and how should he tell the brother that the snake was gone, would imply he wanted to harm the snake. Somehow this post is different to you I guess.. or maybe that would somehow be different. Smileys or not, it's just not real funny to kill pets. Maybe he was making a joke, and just can't tell it right, and it came out sounding like he's a real jerk. I don't know.
Wolfy

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I am not sure your point...we aren't talking about your choice of a joke...but his. First, the shovel isn't natually interested in the snake and requires the brother to purposefully go after the snake. In this post he is talking about the natural interest of the snake in prey items...so yes these are very different.

But I do agree with you on the last comment...it was in bad taste or just didn't come off right...but either way I hate judging people as sadistic just because of one post that doesn't show emotion or his intent.

Peace my friend to each his own :salute:

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Originally Posted by gibbrishclown

Is it common to kill snakes with shovels? I saw it once... asked these big manly men what kind of snake it was... they didn't know. I asked if it was a threat to them, they said no. I called them a bunch of pussies, and my father sped off so as not to let me finish my rant and start a fight.

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I've seen many snakes killed with shovels :(. Probably why I had a deepseated fear of them. When my dad would find a rattler he would always chop the head off with a shovel because he said you can't just kill them, it's possible they can still bite you. :no: