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View Poll Results: How do you feel about your rodent feeders when feeding them off to your snake(s)?
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I think it's sad, but I have to do it
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I think it's sad, but at the same time I don't
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I don't think it's sad, I just think of it as snake food
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
It doesnt really bother me to feed my snakes. I mean it does suck when there happens to be a cute rat, Ill usually feed that one to my picky eaters so if it doesnt get eaten I can keep it a little longer or introduce it to my breeding colony if its a girl. Other than that I just think about it as a way of life.. Its all about the food chain. It's like asking me if I cry as I eat a cheeseburger...
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
 Originally Posted by Lewdogg3
Other than that I just think about it as a way of life.. Its all about the food chain. It's like asking me if I cry as I eat a cheeseburger...
LMAO... that's like the standard answer I give people, when they ask if I "feel bad" feeding my snakes rodents. I ask, do you feel bad eating meat or offering your cat/dog chicken? Just because it doesn't look like an animal, doesn't change the fact that it IS one. 
P.S. I voted for the middle option, even though I don't really care... but that one pang of sympathy counts for something, I suppose.
Last edited by Lolo76; 10-01-2009 at 07:16 AM.
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
No sense of sadness, more like an afterthought that the passing was the least difficult as I can administer (CO2 or cervical dislocation for mice, CO2 only for rats)
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
It is what it is. Even my kids understand it. They each have a pet rat, but then they all have their favorite feeder rats too. And on feeding day, they each take out their favorite rat and put it in the feeding bucket. Uh huh, it pays to be favorite.
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
I am going to sound very cold hearted with my feelings when I feed my snakes. But first let me say that I do have 3 pet rats that are just pets nd will be nothing else ever. When I am feeding my snakes be live or fresh killed, I breed all my own rodents, I feel nothing at all. I guess over the years you become numb to it and just don't care anymore about the "food" you keep. I do not like it nor do I dislike it I just do not care about the rat/mouse/asf I kill and feed off. Just who I am.
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
I've always said if i could feed my snake a big mac I would, but it doesn't work that way. but I don't feel bad, i breed my rodents for that one purpose so yea.
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
Feeding pickles is an "eh" moment for me. Its the food chain. I eat beef. I would happily keep a cow as a pet, (wouldn't eat it) and still eat beef. It's nature, and I don't feel bad. (I did until I heard about rat bites) Keep on breedin, little rodent kind. I salute your sacrifice. 
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
Ive seen so many horrible things in my short life that feeding off a mouse or rat is almost soothing compared.
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Come here little guy. You're awfully cute and fluffy but unfortunately for you, you're made of meat
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
Originally Posted by Beardedragon
Ive seen so many horrible things in my short life that feeding off a mouse or rat is almost soothing compared.
This is the most depressing post I've seen all day 
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Re: How do you feel when feeding mice, rats, etc.?
Originally Posted by Beardedragon
Ive seen so many horrible things in my short life that feeding off a mouse or rat is almost soothing compared.
What he said.
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