Live food...why? Honestly & with facts!

[Gavin]

So I have TWO snakes that will only take LIVE, won't eat F/T or Pre-killed. (i've wasted quite a few rodents..) Am I supposed to let them starve? I say not. It's part of owning a animal. Some times you have to feed live and some times F/T, it really all depends on the snake.

You know, reading is pretty valuable on forums. Read what I said: I said I have no issue with feeding live if it's a last resort thing.

But when you have people saying that they intentionally convert snakes from f/t to live... well, if I don't have a right to say that they're giving snake owners a bad name, then what right do they have putting snakes at risk and putting another animal through unnecessary pain?

As I said, the concept of live feeding irks me when people start doing it when it's completely unnecessary or "just for fun". There's that distinction. Snake owners get a bad rap because idiots put live feeding videos on YT and giggle/laugh at the mouse/rat slowly dying. Live feeding itself doesn't annoy me, but that kind of stuff does. It shows a complete disrespect to life - I mean, how callous would you have to be to film it and laugh at the prey's demise?