Humans are weird

[Bluebonnet Herp]

Sometimes I wonder if there are aliens looking down on this planet and shaking their head or facepalming us because we are really weird and someone really wants to push the "red button" to wipe us out but they keep getting their hand slapped away from it. Personally, I'd push the button. At this point in human evolution/history, we aren't worth keeping around.

I'm sure your friends, family, and everyone else here would appreciate that. /sarcasm

http://melissaasmith.hubpages.com/hu...about-dolphins

I personally don't expect people to ever have common sense to determine the right course of action, but I don't hate on people and they do surprise me sometimes. (I'm nothing too special after all.)
I don't understand your metaphor at all. How does a snake eating rats compare to dog crap?

As for the rats being fed to snakes, people just need to switch to a humane method of pre-killing if they're feeling so bad. My BPs won't take frozen/thawed but they will take a fresh killed rat that died instantly after a broken neck. So far, I just can't see the logic found in feeding live when it's unnecessary. (in other words, with the exception of individuals who only eat live such as hatchlings or picky adults. That's unpreventable and refusing to feed them their live food would result in suffering on their part.)
(No, a tub or viv in your bedroom/basement is not "nature." Nature for BPs is waaay out in Africa where there is no human intervention to bring them domestic rats to eat or clean up their poop.)

Human society is (or can be) a better environment than the wilderness. We have the ability to prevent suffering for the animals under our care out of compassion, especially since they did not choose to be here, and means should be taken to do that if we love our animals so much. Why a lot people will make excuses for that is beyond me.