disturbin youtube vid.

That's extremely disheartening... I'm holding back from saying A LOT right now.

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Originally Posted by Pandora

That's extremely disheartening... I'm holding back from saying A LOT right now.

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I sent the guy a friendly youtube message... very hard. :mad:

I don't see anything wrong with that.

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Originally Posted by _Venom_

I don't see anything wrong with that.

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u dont see anything wrong with stuffing a living creature down the throat of a big snake ??.... for 1. its quite possible that the chick could do some pretty heffty damage to the snake on the way down 2. its just striaght up cruel ! dude whats wrong with you ???

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Originally Posted by _Venom_

I don't see anything wrong with that.

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With all due respect.
There is no respectful reason to have the animal alive during that process. As keepers, we care for our animals, including our feeders that we want to make sure go as humanely as possible. When feeding a live pinky, and they swallow it live, yes it goes through a similar process, but the animal is much too young to slightly comprehend what is happening, and it's eyes are closed. This is a clear example of someone who enjoys watching snakes eat, to see the other animal suffer.

Also, snakes do constrict their prey for a reason, and doing something like this is dangerous and wrong. If someone did the same thing with a rat, it would be just as wrong and even more dangerous because the rat would probably bite the snake.

very very F'ED up video! makes me wanna smack the camera person! but i dont understand how the bird wasnt dead anyway. ive seen young large snakes eat food while its still living but never an adult. how did they get that guy to eat without constricting?

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Originally Posted by andwhy6

very very F'ED up video! makes me wanna smack the camera person! but i dont understand how the bird wasnt dead anyway. ive seen young large snakes eat food while its still living but never an adult. how did they get that guy to eat without constricting?

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There was a rat first, they fed it in directly after the rat so it just kept on swallowing.

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Originally Posted by Pandora

That's extremely disheartening... I'm holding back from saying A LOT right now.

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You can always express your gratitude on youtube :D

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Originally Posted by _Venom_

I don't see anything wrong with that.

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As someone who keeps a large constrictor, you should.

Fish & Wildlife sees something like that, they will push more to get large constrictors banned throughout the nation. They will assume people simply cannot properly take care of them. That means your snake will become illegal and you will have to surrender it.

See anything wrong with it now?

I've said it on this forum once, and I'll say it again. YouTube is digging our grave. Its the third most popular website in the world, and these types of videos are what people get to see of herpetoculture. :mad: