Ball Python Eating Puppies?

[Freakie_frog]

The difference is that rats are bred for the sole purpose of becoming feeder items. To feed an dog or cat is different in the fact that death of that animal was a needless and total disreguard for the animals intended purpose.

People keep sheep, goats, and pigs for pets you wouldn't slaughter someones pet pig and try to justify it as the same as a pig intended for meat processing..

[MissMowgli]

~9 million dogs/cats are killed every year simply because there are not enough homes for them. I would argue that if the said puppies/kittens were just going to go to the pound and get euthanized anyway, I'd much rather have them go to feed another animal (or even humans in dire straits) than get dumped in a landfill. At least then, their deaths serve a purpose.

This coming from a person who used to do foster/rescue work and LOVES cats and dogs alike.

[WesleyTF]

~9 million dogs/cats are killed every year simply because there are not enough homes for them. I would argue that if the said puppies/kittens were just going to go to the pound and get euthanized anyway, I'd much rather have them go to feed another animal (or even humans in dire straits) than get dumped in a landfill. At least then, their deaths serve a purpose.

This coming from a person who used to do foster/rescue work and LOVES cats and dogs alike.

It is shameful how many get euthanized; I'd much rather see them go somewhere more purposeful than the trash.

[bman123]

It depends on the puppy breed. What if it were a small breed dog I'm sure a snake could eat it.

[Wretched Deviant]

Well, yeah I'm sure some people feed cats and/or dogs to large snakes. The only difference to the majority of the population is that they're more domestic and therefore more of a pet. But I've always kept rats as pets, I like them better than dogs and cats even...I find it hard to handle a rat and throw it in with the snake knowing its fate but my snake has to eat and the rat will be furthering another animal's life. I was thinking even a large Ball Python, would need new born puppies...maybe puppies if they're from those things people call teacups and what not. And how exactly would someone go to someone and say "Yeah, I'd like five of your puppies." and it not come off as something more than a simple adoption? In order to get puppies from people while lying he'd have to go around getting a new puppy every week or every couple of weeks or a large amount of them, which will rise up some suspicion but probably more than two posts (I think from the same person) trying to alert the populace. If I had a large enough snake maybe I would use puppies or kitten as a food source but I'd breed my own or at least not say I want to adopt the animal...or maybe flemish giants. And the simple fact that after the first post I emailed the person that a Ball Python doesn't get large enough to eat puppies and then a second post popped up just saying Python threw me off a little.

[wolfy-hound]

Sounds to me like someone just trolling to make trouble. Or someone who just beleives everything they've ever read on the net, so they'll post this sort of 'warning' to prevent anyone from allowing their precious unwanted puppies from becoming snake food, thinking they're doing a good deed.

While I can see people's points that rats can be just as loving a pet as a dog, and indeed, rats are bred exclusively for pets by some rat fanciers, there is the fact that to most of the population, rats are lab rats, or pests.. dogs are pets.

I would never ever advocate feeding any age cat to a python, as a cat could kill the reptile even if it only bit once and caused a major infection. Plus the whole "fuzzy pet" bad publicity.

I myself wouldn't feed pups or kittens to my reptiles. Just isn't a really good idea PR wise. But I also freely admit that they're just animals, and I don't think it's evil that other cultures eat dogs or cats. We eat goats and cows and chickens.. other people eat goats, but not cows.. vegans think it's evil to eat any animal. Shrug, different strokes for different folks.

[jjmitchell]

The difference is that rats are bred for the sole purpose of becoming feeder items. To feed an dog or cat is different in the fact that death of that animal was a needless and total disreguard for the animals intended purpose.

People keep sheep, goats, and pigs for pets you wouldn't slaughter someones pet pig and try to justify it as the same as a pig intended for meat processing..

I agree My daugter wanted gunea pigs 2 years ago, recently got tired of them and i rehomed them.... My wife tried to give them to someone as retic food.... I would not let her and she got upset as she was tired of them, I asked her if I could feed her weiner dog to a gator or somethin when I got tired of him... once again she got mad, but did not seem to make the connection in what i was trying to say....

ps the gunea pigs went to a good home not for food

[RedDevil]

rats/mice are natural food item for predator, dogs are not

Depends on the predator.

[olstyn]

Depends on the predator.

Agreed - there are many snakes that prefer reptiles as prey, and people generally try to convert them over to eating rodents. The idea that we feed rodents to snakes because it's natural is not strictly true - for some snakes, it's natural, but for quite a lot of them, it's because it's what we find to be convenient.

[Vypyrz]

I guess you've tried dog , lol?

I have...