Kitten Feeders

[Willowy]

People don't mind doing it to cattle, chickens, pigs, etc. all day long.

Actually, suicide and domestic murder rates are far higher for guys who work the kill line at a slaughterhouse. They have to rotate them frequently to keep any employees. Causing death is not a healthy thing for someone to do all day.

I think---I hope---that most of those are trolls. Someone on my cat forum posted one of those, you know, a "look how horrible this is" kind of thing. But the person had posted a picture of a ball python and it said "my snake has outgrown mice and rats so I'm looking for an 8-12 week old kitten". Now, of course, a BP is never going to outgrow rats, and the picture was of a not-especially-large BP too. Maybe that snake would be eating weaned rats or small rats. 2-3 ounces, tops. An 8-12 week old kitten weighs 2-3 POUNDS. I mean, even if someone were to try to feed a kitten to a BP, well, even newborn kittens should weigh 4 ounces, it would have to be a big BP to eat something that size. Also, as picky as they are idk if they'd even take it. So I'm pretty sure that particular one was trolling, and that how I replied to the thread. But there probably are some Burm or RTB owners who have used cats as feeders :/.

And yes, I know that rationally, meat is meat, an animal is an animal, etc. But I still just can't support feeding kittens or puppies to other animals, even if they are unwanted. Just nope.

And, yeah, cats were originally "domesticated" to kill rodents around human habitation. People say "cats kill a bazillion critters a year! They're evil!" Well, yeah? Would you rather have those bazillion rodents running around on your property? I think you'd kill them too. My parents had a cat who hunted heavily, and when he died the rabbits had a field day, the population just exploded.