Live Feeding Morally Wrong???

[ch312]

snakes like live food...
wolves eat animals while they are still breathing...
fish eat live fish...

giving snakes live food is the same thing they would do in the wild. theres no reasoning with nutcase animal lovers that are totally oblivious to what happens in nature.

[Ophiuchus]

Morals and ethics have nothing to do with it. Its nature.

IMO, the only people who have a problem with live feedings are usually people who don't keep snakes...or in the least, people who have not kept snakes for very long.

[Beardedragon]

When i first started into snakes i would not even think about feeding live, not because i thought it was wrong, but i felt bad for the mice. The first live feeding was the hardest, and after that i did not really care.

[snakelady]

I don't believe feeding live is morally wrong.

Snakes naturally eat live food. Though feeding live is not the same as a snake eating a wild rodent. In the wild the rodent has a chance to escape. Sometimes they get caught sometimes they don't. That's the way of nature. Feeding live makes you responsible for the animals death because you are going to make sure your snake does eat it or it will go to another snake that will eat it.

I'm not saying it is wrong. Don't you live feeders get in a tizzy. It's a matter of choice that's all.

[sneakerpro]

I cant belive that with genocide, abortion, rape, murder, starvation, hiv, and everythin else going on in the world today people still find time to focus so much time on feeding live mice and britney spears kids..... Just crazy if u ask me

Don't even get me started about all the celebrity gossip shows/magazines. Does anyone think Tom Cruise cares if MY girlfriend is pregnant? So why should I care what he decides to name his kid?

Sorry that I'm so off topic

[joepythons]

i cant belive that with genocide, abortion, rape, murder, starvation, hiv, and everythin else going on in the world today people still find time to focus so much time on feeding live mice and britney spears kids..... just crazy if u ask me

Its because they are plain old ignorant people with no lives .I have said it over and over who cares about britney just lock her up and throw away they keys .I agree with you that thier are more important things going on that need to be stopped.Do want to know why everyone runs there mouths about the reptile trade and us as keepers? Its simple because all they do is mention the words KILLER REPTILES and some morons start up some ignorant banning laws.You would think they would start making harsher laws for rapping someones wife or daughter then picking on us .Right now we have a couple in jail for starving there baby to death for 8 days WITH NO FOOD!!! What do you think they said in court? NOT GUILTY If they would just give me 30 minutes with them they would get thier just deserts .Gee they will go to jail for awhile but we might end up losing our rights to keep reptiles.Gee equel laws my butt

[Texas Dan]

Its because they are plain old ignorant people with no lives .I have said it over and over who cares about britney just lock her up and throw away they keys .I agree with you that thier are more important things going on that need to be stopped.Do want to know why everyone runs there mouths about the reptile trade and us as keepers? Its simple because all they do is mention the words KILLER REPTILES and some morons start up some ignorant banning laws.You would think they would start making harsher laws for rapping someones wife or daughter then picking on us .Right now we have a couple in jail for starving there baby to death for 8 days WITH NO FOOD!!! What do you think they said in court? NOT GUILTY If they would just give me 30 minutes with them they would get thier just deserts .Gee they will go to jail for awhile but we might end up losing our rights to keep reptiles.Gee equel laws my butt

bans joe for using "thier" instead of "their". lol.

[joepythons]

bans joe for using "thier" instead of "their". lol.

Wrong thread

[filly77]

I'm with you on that Beardedragon, when i bought my 2 normal females, I was told they ate great on f/t. I found that not to be true, my girls just didnt eat that good on f/t and I found myseld wasting many f/t rats. One day I tried live and I haven't wanted to go back since! The first time was definitely the hardest, I almost cried. Even now, I feel a bad, not like b4 tho, I say sorry to the mouse or rat and then tell my snakes to GET UM'!

My mother when ever she comes to visit always says how evil snakes are and how they shouldnt be alive because they eat mice/rats and that im crazy for doing it and I hear "you're sick! how can you do that? I never thought you'd ever own a snake". I hear it all!!! I've tried explaining to her that its natural, its the food chain and its better IMHO than us eating chicken, beef or pork, the way most large companies treat livestock is VERY inhumane.

But she never listens so I just ignore it.

Everyone will have their own opinions, my snakes eat better on live. It works for them so it works for me and thats all that matters in my eyes.

~Maizie

[chintasurf]

Options are limited on my island - its either feed live or kill fresh. Having been a veterinary nurse in the past i can see both sides. In honesty i was someone who would have prefered to feed frozen. But my BP has always eaten live with no problem. It is what she would naturally do. When i drop a mouse in they are none the wiser they happily wonder around looking into all the nooks. They never see it coming.
I think out of preference i will always feed live - no matter what the animal righters feel. Its what is best for my BP not for them.