Well... I finally got one of those emails

I had posted an ad on craigslist weeks ago about looking for a local feeder rat breeder, and I finally got the uneducated hate mail! LOL.

Something along the lines of "why don't you put the snake back in the wild where it belongs?" along with swear words and much anger. :P

WOO I guess we all go down that train some day if we post about snakes eating food on something like craigslist.

Get them really worked up and say "So I guess this means you don't have any rats available for snake yum yum??"

Yikes! That's unfortunate! i do advise feeding in separate enclosure and fresh kill if you can. I used a pair of tongs to do a short "puppet show", and mine struck inside of 5 to 30 seconds. They are now used to warmed up frozen and they both strike very fast. Ignore the haters. I do run into a few people who disagree. I do not ever feed live because my snake could get hurt.

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Get them really worked up and say "So I guess this means you don't have any rats available for snake yum yum??"

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Oh man, I wish I said that now hahah. I lamely replied a couple realistic sentences about how ball pythons are from Africa and would die in the wild here. And something about PETA induced ideologies. :P

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Originally Posted by Merriah

Yikes! That's unfortunate! i do advise feeding in separate enclosure and fresh kill if you can. I used a pair of tongs to do a short "puppet show", and mine struck inside of 5 to 30 seconds. They are now used to warmed up frozen and they both strike very fast. Ignore the haters. I do run into a few people who disagree. I do not ever feed live because my snake could get hurt.

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I'll save the lecture for if you're asking questions. But the hatchling I was looking for live for has already taken five F/T meals now, she's successfully converted. :D Just forgot to take down my ad LOL.

I lost my cat once and put up LOST ads on CL and my local paper.

I got voicemails from 2 different people - berating me for letting my cat escape and 1 from a person who told me how incredibly cruel I was because she was wearing a collar. (It was a break away collar too.)

Basically... people suck.

Sorry you had to deal with that. Hope you find some feeders soon though :)

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Originally Posted by voodoolamb

I lost my cat once and put up LOST ads on CL and my local paper.

I got voicemails from 2 different people - berating me for letting my cat escape and 1 from a person who told me how incredibly cruel I was because she was wearing a collar. (It was a break away collar too.)

Basically... people suck.

Sorry you had to deal with that. Hope you find some feeders soon though :)

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Geez... sorry that happened. I think that's so much worse, being a lost pet. People do suck! And many are somewhere between quite dumb and brainless idiots.

Kind of off topic but feeding a snake in a separate enclosure is bad advice. There is no advantage whatsoever to it. Only disadvantages. I'm not going to go into it but that was an old wives tale which has been disproved over and over and over.

Also switching to F/T has benefits, one the biggest imo is less chance of your snake ingesting parasites although it doesn't kill 100% of everything.

I love pushing those types of peoples buttons. I love when people threaten me, as I just push their buttons even more, not that I wouldn't give them a chance to try if they feel like they can lol.

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Originally Posted by Neal

I love pushing those types of peoples buttons. I love when people threaten me, as I just push their buttons even more, not that I wouldn't give them a chance to try if they feel like they can lol.

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LOL. I feel like it would be more fun to do that if it were someone I actually knew, and not some rando.

Sorry you had to experience that. Remember some people have limited knowledge, unfortunately other people have no desire for any knowledge but are great with counterproductivity. ;)

You could have said you do release them back into the wild. Say that snakes were here before any of the houses, and you're breeding and releasing them back into their old habitats.

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

Sorry you had to experience that. Remember some people have limited knowledge, unfortunately other people have no desire for any knowledge but are great with counterproductivity. ;)

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Yeah! This one looked like the latter LOL

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Originally Posted by Sallos

You could have said you do release them back into the wild. Say that snakes were here before any of the houses, and you're breeding and releasing them back into their old habitats.

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😂😂😂 I'm freakin dying

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Originally Posted by Sallos

You could have said you do release them back into the wild. Say that snakes were here before any of the houses, and you're breeding and releasing them back into their old habitats.

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Oh yeah, and in the meantime, they still gotta eat... you selling rodents or not?

I would love to know what those people think cat food is made of. Cuz I'm pretty sure it isn't made of free-range soy kale.

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Originally Posted by Neal

I love pushing those types of peoples buttons. I love when people threaten me, as I just push their buttons even more, not that I wouldn't give them a chance to try if they feel like they can lol.

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Me too. I go into troll mode rather easily with people that want some..

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Originally Posted by Coluber42

Oh yeah, and in the meantime, they still gotta eat... you selling rodents or not?

I would love to know what those people think cat food is made of. Cuz I'm pretty sure it isn't made of free-range soy kale.

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Seriously, I think most people just lack that common sense somehow? It's like they don't understand "meat from the store" is still the mercilessly butchered body parts of intelligent animals. LOL

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Originally Posted by Merriah

i do advise feeding in separate enclosure.

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I actually advise against this as does 99% of everyone on here.

It's crazy out there.