I honestly do not feel she had any prior reserves, as she is not the type of person to not vocalize her opinions. She has many friends that own snakes, and I am certain she has seen one eat at least once so it's not a gross factor. I just don't think that the fact that her boyfriend would have to actually be the ones to "do the killing" (meaning, place a rat, whether dead or alive, into the cage) that made her realize she was against it. In other words, they would be the ones committing the offense, instead of other people, therefore she had to think about it more. NOW, since she has come to that conclusion, she is fairly against it no matter who does it (including me!). Does that make sense? But really, she wouldn't have to be near it or ever do the actual feeding. They have two cats together (she wanted them) and she decided that she no longer wanted to clean litter boxes, therefore her boyfriend has promised her she never has to clean the boxes and he does it 100% of the time. So, really, it's not a matter of her having to do it or see it. If they owned a snake and she didn't want to ever see it eat, she wouldn't have to.

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That's some backwards logic. Maybe she's stuck on the "snakes eat cuter fluffy animals" track.
I think this may be part of it. I think a piece of bacon is far-removed from a live, intelligent pig, that people forget where it came from. Unfortunately, I think it makes it easier for people to eat meat without thinking about it, yet makes it easy for them to judge other animals from doing the same. But at the same time, in her case, she "realizes" it's bad for her to eat meat, yet still would never go vegetarian.

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Just the fact that there are vegan cat foods is rage-worthy. "Vegan" cats have to have constant urine tests just to verify you're not killing your cat yet. Even then, blindness is very likely.
AHHHHG! I just . . . I don't understand . . . *sigh*

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Missvan - What exactly is the principle she is making? I didn't really get it from your post.
Sorry, let me clarify. She eats meat, yet feels it is wrong for her to eat meat. She also feels it is wrong to feed an animal to another animal. It's confusing and conflicting, because she doesn't want animals to eat other animals, but she understands they have to eat, but at the same time she feels it is wrong. Make sense? So, to hopefully clearly answer your question, she is saying "it is wrong to feed animals to other animals" as well as "I wish other animals didn't have to eat meat." My problem with this ideal is that she continues to eat meat and feeds her cats meat, but feels it is wrong to feed a snake meat.

I suppose my "I would gladly go vegetarian before I expected any of my carnivorous animals to turn into vegetarians, even my dogs (which I believe are technically omnivorous??)!!" was confusing and made it sound like she expected the snake to eat grass, or something. My apologize.

I have no issue with those who do not want to eat meat, and, if you have that believe, I understand if you wouldn't want to see or hear about feeding animals to other animals. I have no problem with people who are scared or grossed out by feeding a snake. BUT, I do not understand someone who says it is bad to feed animals other animals, yet eats meat and feeds her other animals meat.