Weird BP Dream

[DarkComeSoon]

Damn that mad me sad I feed F/T but I feel sympathetic towards any animal fed alive.

[snakeyes]

that's pretty much how the mice/rat feels. although they can't really reason about why the person isn't helping them...it's still kind of sad.
anyways, this reality is the reason i feel f/t.
i think mice and rats are really cute
i can feed them to my snake after they're dead no problem.

i recommend you don't dwell on how "cute" the snake food is. lol.

[merdcme]

sounds like you had a crazy lucid dream! and it gave you a differnt point of view. thanks for shareing

[RockyTop]

Yeah, I just came back from Chinese buffet. Poor dog... er, I mean chicken..

Those were once alive as well. It was just a weird dream that gave me a different perspective. Although she wouldn't take FT, I may give it a try again.

And it isn't like I regret keeping a snake or anything...but.. it does make me wonder why alot of people get such enjoyment watching the snake kill/eat a live rodent. Look at youtube, tons of people enjoy watching the death of another animal.

I am not a hippie, carebear, etc etc. I respect my snakes killing ability, something it has obviously perfected over an evolutionary time period. It is something definitely worth seeing.. But.. I have no desire to video tape it with me hooting/hollering/laughing in the background, and playing it with heavy metal music. I find the actual intake of the food much more interesting than the killing. It is amazing how they put their food down.

Anyhow... just a bizarre dream I had. And a bit of a sense that I am responsible for that mouse no longer existing. Yesterday at this time he was sleeping/eating with his inbred brothers and sisters lol.. and today... nothing. A cease of existence.

But hey... my snake is happy, fed, and was curled up inside her warm hide this morning digesting her food. She will enjoy a nice long life under my care, hopefully (I noticed she only uses her warm hide after she eats. I guess to speed up metabolism a bit?)

[GoBoilers]

Just an interesting bit of trivia-don't underestimate mother nature... Rodents have the ability to release their own endogenous pain-killers/anesthetics. Perhaps nature's small way of showing mercy to an obvious mammilian food source!

[wilomn]

The quality of a death has value. Perhaps a CO2 device or learning how to whack them and kill them instantly would relieve your feelings of anxiety.

The mouse will die, that's a given. How it dies is up to you.

[dnnsfam]

I used to have pet mice, than they became feeders to my snakes. I rather my snake kill them than me, but that is just personally me. I have a problem my self causing any pain or harm to a living thing, even feeders.

The quality of a death has value. Perhaps a CO2 device or learning how to whack them and kill them instantly would relieve your feelings of anxiety.

The mouse will die, that's a given. How it dies is up to you.

[RockyTop]

I used to have pet mice, than they became feeders to my snakes. I rather my snake kill them than me, but that is just personally me. I have a problem my self causing any pain or harm to a living thing, even feeders.

lol wow, so you fed your pets off? I am not sure I could do that lol.

[toreh]

Aww man, that makes me feel guilty for feeding live! But I mean I cant feed F/T she just ignores it and treats it like her half log thats in her cage. So the only thing I can do is feed live.

[Oroborous]

Very insightful dream...I feed p/k, so I do the actual killing before I feed the rodents to my snakes. It's really tough for me sometimes, but having as many snakes as I do, it is a regular chore and I've become used to it. But I'm not indifferent to an animal's loss of life, and I always give them respect. I'm a vegetarian to, lol, except when it comes to sea food, I can't resist. But I'm the kind of person who believes if you can't watch an animal get slaughtered you have no business eating it. But with the rats and mice, I have a weird fear that they'll come back to haunt me. But I've never had any dreams about it.