Disturbing

[wolfy-hound]

First, you come off as a distasteful sort of person claiming they never make a disparaging remark or ever disagree in the slightest manner ever, by your post that somehow the forum is full of people being argumenative and negative. Perhaps you avoid posting anything that could possibly be construed in the slightest negative manner.. but I'd bet you don't post much of substance if that's true. People who discuss anything at all will disagree and in any disagreement between people, some will find the fact that someone has a differing opinion to be offensive. Healthy discussion is not made up of agreements. It's made up of differing opinions and ideas. Even on this forum, there's people who claim to have two snakes living in one cage and no one flames them automatically. There's a degree of civility here that doesn't exist on many forums.

Second, the cobra was eating it's natural food. In fact, you never even stated what it WAS eating, as "albino" is not a creature, it's a color mutation. Was it an albino rat, an albino BP, an albino cobra? No matter what creature it was eating, it was eating food. It's not evil to show a cobra eating a snake, no more than showing a BP eating a rat. It's food. People eat cheeseburgers, BPs eat rats and cobras (usually) eat other snakes. Finding it offensive that the cobra was eating it's natural food is akin to someone who keeps pet rats coming on here and stating they find a feeding pic to be offensive because it shows a rat being consumed by a snake.

Lastly, if you don't feel that any killing is ever humane, I'd hope you were a vegan and don't keep any carnivore pets(like dogs, cats, ferrets, reptiles... etc). Humane means that the creature did not feel unnecasary pain. I believe you somehow are trying to say any killing is immoral. Humane has little to do with whether the creature is albino, sick, or needed for food. It has more to do with the method. Freezing a mammal is generally accepted to be inhumane in most cases. Killing a mouse with CO2 gas is not considered to be inhumane, even if the mouse is not sick or injured. It's part of keeping pets to accept that some need to eat other creatures, whether it's whole and natural or processed into kibble.

And I agree with JLC, find any active forum that's full of information and healthy ideas and varying opinions that doesn't completely restrict the members freedom to post, and you'll see plenty of debating and arguments and in most forums, a lot of nasty commentary in the process. At least here I usually only see the debate, the argument, the discussion. Here you don't see name-calling or threats. I've always felt that the moment you have to call names, you've lost the argument. It recalls those days in kindergartin when the arguement consisted of "You're wrong!" "Yeah, why?" "Cause you're a doodyhead!" If you're out of reasoning argument to support your opinions, you should concede or step back... not regress to toddler stage. At least on THIS forum, I see that happening more often than not. When someone forgets this idea, they are reminded by the staff via warning points.

And of course, there's always the "If you don't like this forum, there's plenty of others for you to GO enjoy." Just saying.