I'll admit it.

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Originally Posted by JaGv

if you think feeding pinkies and weaned rats is sad. imagine people that raise animals then butchering them to eat. i had a goat named forest once i played with him after school everytime i came by he would stick his head out and maa at me. i had to butcher him for food. you would think i felt bad but i didn't i knew since the day i got him that it was going to happen.

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Yeah that I wouldnt be able to do. :(
I dont get attached or name my rats for a reason lol.

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Originally Posted by mues155

Yeah that I wouldnt be able to do. :(
I dont get attached or name my rats for a reason lol.

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yeah i didn't think i had it in me until i had to do and honestly it didnt bother me at all. the way i see it i dont buy rats or mice to play with them. but to keep my snakes fed

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Originally Posted by JaGv

if you think feeding pinkies and weaned rats is sad. imagine people that raise animals then butchering them to eat. i had a goat named forest once i played with him after school everytime i came by he would stick his head out and maa at me. i had to butcher him for food. you would think i felt bad but i didn't i knew since the day i got him that it was going to happen.

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I don't think I could ever do that
When I was really young, my parents rented a place that was on someone's farm. There was this BIG bull that I would feed hay to from the other side of the fence, my mom hated it because it was kinda dangerous, I was probably 5 at the the time. One day he stopped coming to the fence and my mom told me he started a family and had to go, but looking back on it now, I know he went the slaughter house.

It's sad for me too, and honestly, I've shed tears when I have to feed off the little two-week-old babies who haven't quite started to, or are just open/ing their eyes. It's still very sad but I can deal with it a little better. Some people can block it out, others love it, but for some, their psyche just won't allow it. It sucks.

I mean, come on, just look at that.... ( rat, not mouse though) Yes, this one became snake food....
http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/y..._4087623_n.jpg

I never had an issue feeding live to my snakes, its my wife who hated it at first. Then one day a mouse bit her... lets just say she doesnt care anymore.. but she wont feed anymore either because she is afraid of getting bit, lol. She also wants nothing to do with feeding our monitor pinkies. We do it maybe once every month or two, but if you have ever watched an ackie monitor eat a pinky, its a whole different story than a snake... Im just starting to breed ASF's, I like my breeding colony, I try to handle them but they like to bite, yet I know when they dont produce anymore they will be snake food, and I am ok with that.

When I was breeding rodents (thank goodness I don't have to now - great supplier now), I got really attached to my breeders. But when they no longer produced, they had to be fed off - I simply couldn't afford to keep a retirement home for them.

Those were the ones I had to drop in the tub to my garbage disposals and leave the room until the deed was done. I just couldn't watch.