I believe that part of Zinc's deal whether he will admit it or not is that he wants to be detached from the kill, the death at hand.
When you feed F/T, your mind tells you that you are feeding "food". It's not live, so it's not bad, as if it is not even an animal. But SOMEONE had to kill that rat!
I don't enjoy feeding live. My snake is 12 yrs old. Thus set in her ways. She refuses F/K. She is not going to change.
I hate observing the kill. The look on the rats face. It WAS so cute crawling around just seconds ago.
But guess what, nature, the animal kingdom is a slaughterhouse. Why do you think they call it a food chain. If you have spent time in the woods, I mean really spent time, animals are horrific to each other. Or I'm sure you've seen the nature shows.
So when I feed live, I know that it is nature's way. That way I do not let it upset me.
And of course, I monitor the kill and frequently peek in on the ingestion process.
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