Am I a bad person!

[Beardedragon]

In regards to the post above me. * Please, if you feel the need to argue with this, do not waste your time because I will not change my mind over this*Personally, the threat of the snake getting attacked by a rat isnt a thought in my mind. I feel fine with puting in the rat and leaving the room to check on something else for a minute or two. If that rats are well fed and smart they will keep away and go hide in a corner. Once this summer I had a snake shed, who didnt eat for two weeks because of it so I threw in a small rat. It was not feeding day and really stupid on my part because I have a horrible memory when I am in a rush. SO I go to work and an hour or two in I remember, and of course I freak out thinking im going to come home to a blood bath because nine hours is neglect to keep a feeder unsupervised in for because in that time alot COULD happen. I cant get ahold of anyone to take it out and ive still got the rest of the day before my shift ends. I go home, and open the tub and the rat is in the corner and the snake is fine. you can trust I just about killed myself for forgeting and I am not saying it is ok to keep a feeder in for more than five minutes without checking, but from all the pictures I have seen with the horrible gashes, its from keepers who have left the rodent in the tank for more than a day. What am I possibly trying to prove here? IDK because ive gone off subject. BUT to those who watch over their snakes the entire time, keep it up! but if you ever have to get those cookies out of the oven befor they burn feel somewhat worry free to do so.

Oh, not to mention I have 14 snakes, It would take all day to feed each one personally watchign because some will only eat with the lights off, someone will only eat when the tub is closed, and some just take forever. But most of the time they strike right away so there isnt a problem to begin with


And no to the OP, you are not a bad person, they have to live/eat and alot of bps will not take f/t or f/k. You would be a bad person if it was starved puppys.

[katiadarling]

I've glanced at this poll before, but never voted. I just voted no, but I would like to say that there are much better ways to kill something. I didn't read the entire thread, but I'm sure this has been discussed over and over.

[BPHERP]

Humane this, humane that, everyone's worried about how the rodent is put down, etc, etc...and I might be more agreeable to considering this questions...but...

...then, of course, simply taking a live rodent and dangling it in the face of a sure and inescapable death is totally acceptable, and then, bang, squeak, and then eventual suffocation. Is that ok? if you keep reptiles it has to be.

If PETA where involved they would try and convert ball pythons to vegans, which of course might work if we could take tofu into the lab, shape it like a rodent, and dowse it with the proper scent. That might actually work, come to think of it. Hmmm.

Now, If someone owns a snake that's of considerable investment, and it wont eat f/t, then a gray area presents itself wherein drastic measures might need to be taken. People do funny things when there little scaled obsessions don't want to feed.

Myself,...I prefer not not sugar-coat; if you keep reptiles, rodents are going to die, period...the way it dies is usually decided by how it makes the human feel, i.e., most people feel like crap when they whack it against an immovable object, and I don't like doing that myself.

So, unless I have a snake worth 5K, I feed live.

Thats as close and accurate to nature as it gets.

BrandonsBalls

[icygirl]

Myself,...I prefer not not sugar-coat; if you keep reptiles, rodents are going to die, period...the way it dies is usually decided by how it makes the human feel, i.e., most people feel like crap when they whack it against an immovable object, and I don't like doing that myself.

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[sg1trogdor]

But my mom and lil brother where treating me lil I was Hitler

Just tell them hitler never strangled people. He built gas chambers. Thats what I did.

[sg1trogdor]

Can't believe I put a smiley face after a sentence referring to Hitler's gas chambers.

[icygirl]

Just tell them hitler never strangled people. He built gas chambers. Thats what I did.

That is a terrible thing to say.

[BPHERP]

Just tell them hitler never strangled people. He built gas chambers. Thats what I did.

You cannot compare or equate "Hitler" to "Reptile owners", and you cannot compare "gassing humans" to "gassing rodents"; mankind has no real natural enemy, so to kill humans, in any sense, is not a natural occurring process, while rodent exist in the food-chain for an array of natural predators; snakes, large lizards, birds, etc.

Knowing this fact assuages any trace amount of guilt I may have, in that, its natural.

The single most natural way to feed reptiles rodents is live. Any other way, makes it less natural.

[Melicious]

Just tell them hitler never strangled people. He built gas chambers. Thats what I did.

Is it wrong that I laughed? O_o

[BPHERP]

No. Humor takes many forms.