Frozen vs live

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Originally Posted by Streller

I feed F/T rats, I don't think you're allowed to feed live in the United Kingdom.

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Originally Posted by Reinz

Someone from the UK stated on a previous thread that is against the law there.

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It is not illegal just frowned upon and highly discourage by animal activist groups.

A lot of people are confused about the law the bottom line this practice is currently legal so long it is not practiced in a public place, of course animal activist strongly disagree on the way the law should be interpreted.

Quoted from the welfare act

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Currently under the 1911 Act it is not illegal to feed a live vertebrate to another unless you cause it unnecessary suffering, so that would have to be the result of a court case and the judge would have to make a decision.

Those of us who have been involved with reptiles will argue that a mouse that is being produced for food really has no cognizance of what is going on and exhibits no fear.

Whilst we absolutely do not want to encourage live feeding, we think we need some clarity as to whether that is going to be made illegal under this clause of fighting. Our concerns are, because of Clause 3(iv)(c), the need to be able to exhibit normal behavior patterns, that snakes in the wild feed on life prey, there are no carrion feeding snakes, so that would mean we are not going to be able to feed them frozen food; we are going to have to feed them live mice, and equally we would be opposed to having to introduce that.

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Hope this helps

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/image...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Streller http://ball-pythons.net/forums/image...post-right.png
I feed F/T rats, I don't think you're allowed to feed live in the United Kingdom.




http://ball-pythons.net/forums/image...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Reinz http://ball-pythons.net/forums/image...post-right.png
Someone from the UK stated on a previous thread that is against the law there.



It is not illegal just frowned upon and highly discourage by animal activist groups.

A lot of people are confused about the law the bottom line this practice is currently legal so long it is not practiced in a public place, of course animal activist strongly disagree on the way the law should be interpreted.

Quoted from the welfare act


Currently under the 1911 Act it is not illegal to feed a live vertebrate to another unless you cause it unnecessary suffering, so that would have to be the result of a court case and the judge would have to make a decision.

Those of us who have been involved with reptiles will argue that a mouse that is being produced for food really has no cognizance of what is going on and exhibits no fear.

Whilst we absolutely do not want to encourage live feeding, we think we need some clarity as to whether that is going to be made illegal under this clause of fighting. Our concerns are, because of Clause 3(iv)(c), the need to be able to exhibit normal behavior patterns, that snakes in the wild feed on life prey, there are no carrion feeding snakes, so that would mean we are not going to be able to feed them frozen food; we are going to have to feed them live mice, and equally we would be opposed to having to introduce that.


Hope this helps..
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