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

[Gavin]

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.

No, not because I dislike it... because it's an unnecessary risk to the snake and it's arguably unnecessarily cruel. If your snake will refuse to eat a dead animal, well you're not going to let it starve... that'd be much more cruel. This is why I made the concession.

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..

Oh so I can't say my own opinion, even if it's contrary to some on here? I thought this was a "friendly" forum...

I'm not trying to convert anyone, I am discussing the issue of ethics here. Which is entirely relevant when feeding a live, concious mammal to another animal.

It's not that I don't like the fact that people feed live, it's some of the reasons. "Because I like to see my snake kill things" - sadistic much? That's a legitimate reason?? What if I said I fed live snakes to my pet mongooses because "I enjoyed watching them kill things"? Would you like that? Of course you wouldn't... because it's completely disgusting and inappropriate. Using sadism as a reason shouldn't be acceptable. There are legitimate reasons to feed live to snakes, "because I enjoy watching things die" isn't one of them. :/