Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
I don't think they would find it amusing to watch the animal die "brutally". I don't get entertainment out of feeding live, but it's that mindset that makes these people hate us, because they believe we only feed live to watch the animal suffer, when that is usually not the case.
Connie, I agree with you on this. It is those people in the snake world that give us good keepers a bad name, by getting entertained by the snake killing the live animal and bragging like it's the best form of entertainment in the world. It's really disgusting to me. I find the way snakes constrict and swallow to be quite facinating, but that is not the reason I feed live to just a couple of my snakes. I've already said it's because they'd rather starve to death than eat anything else. I just want my snakes healthy and on a normal feeding schedule. It's terrible people try to make feeding live seem like a fashion show or similar. That IS exactly at least one of the things that angers a lot of those people getting on other's cases about feeding live.