Quote Originally Posted by Gavin View Post
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?
To your insult.. Really?

You say as a last resort? Why? Why honestly? Because you don't like it, well that's your opinion.. But you don't need to argue and pick apart peoples responses so you can try to convert someone or in turn make them look bad. I feed live, so what's the problem? I do it carefully and I don't smack the poor rodent against a rock to stun it.

This was a question thread, not a thread to try to convert everyone to F/T, or whatever someone sees fit. If you don't like the fact some of us feed live, well I really don't know what to tell you..