Putting food for rat in snake enclosure to distract them?

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Of course it's not the same, it's a comparison, it's not supposed to be the same. Point being, we do things to mitigate risk all the time.

My point being that we use comparison far to often and regularly out of phase. No matter how many times we do it, an apple will never be an orange, even if they are both fruit, and delicious, and good for you, and both grow on trees, and can be purchased at the grocery store, and are generally round, and can be made into to tasty juice. Still gonna be apples and oranges



I didn't say you did, or at least I didn't intend to. I meant that because it's a potentially good idea (by virtue, partially, of not being a bad idea), it's shouldn't be ridiculed.

If you take my amazement or amusement as a form of ridicule, then that's a label you applied yourself. I intended neither in my OP.



Darling, I was using your estimated chance of a problem (0.1%) to illustrate that even though it's a small risk, it does happens. And if you're the person whose snake got bitten, statistics are of little comfort.

Next time I'll issue a warning. My point was hyberbolistic on purpose...



I just didn't like the derision that accompanied it, nor the implication that it if someone does do this, it's because they don't know a snake can kill a rat on its own. It was insulting and unnecessary.

Again, labels you have placed on the shipping container. Insulting? Mildly at most. Unnecessary? Debatable, as most things are...




I was never a Prince fan but I shall take it as a compliment!

You don't know what you're missing. Highly recommended!



Don't do that. I'm allowed to not like what you said, and say so, without being motivated by hysteria.

And don't throw hysteria at me. We both know the origin of the word. Please feel free to not like anything I say, but I urge you to not like what I say, not what you think I mean. You'll find I use little in the way of hidden meaning. Not many lights under bushel baskets where my opinion is concerned.