So, I was on Youtube watching Burmese pythons eat rabbits and geese and all that. I absolutely love the videos, they're FASCINATING to watch, especially as I think I'd enjoy owning a Burmese at some point later in life (when I have the financial means to take care of it).
But, I saw one video that is stuck in my head. I keep having nightmares. I've fed live mice to my brother's ball python, I've seen videos--this ONE is driving me insane and depressing me.
It was a live chick, in a burmese pythons mouth. The python didn't constrict it--the chick was full alive, chirping and singing in the snake's jaws.
Is it just me, or could they have pre killed it? I understand a lot of snakes won't take F/T, but did it have to be a chick? And did they have to listen to it singing and chirping, fully alive, while it's getting digested?
It made me cry. I had to turn it off, and there's a twinge in my heart now.
I don't want to sound like a baby. I feed animals, and I understand it's nature. Usually when snakes kill I think it's a MUCH preferred death over something like a lion, because lions will chase and play with food, and just tear it piece by piece, alive or dead. I think snakes kill in a pretty humane way as compared to others. But I don't get why the little chick had to be fully alive while it was being swallowed. I don't even understand why the burmese didn't constrict it.
What happened? Can anyone offer any consolation? Do you think it hurt the chick really bad?
And were there other options? Or did the snake just have to eat, and that was the only appropriately sized food item?
Thanks a lot. I don't want to sound like I'm whining. I don't know why this video is messing with me so bad.
Shellie