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View Poll Results: Am I a bad person for killing the mice myself!

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    Its all about keeping it real...

    Humane this, humane that, everyone's worried about how the rodent is put down, etc, etc...and I might be more agreeable to considering this questions...but...

    ...then, of course, simply taking a live rodent and dangling it in the face of a sure and inescapable death is totally acceptable, and then, bang, squeak, and then eventual suffocation. Is that ok? if you keep reptiles it has to be.

    If PETA where involved they would try and convert ball pythons to vegans, which of course might work if we could take tofu into the lab, shape it like a rodent, and dowse it with the proper scent. That might actually work, come to think of it. Hmmm.

    Now, If someone owns a snake that's of considerable investment, and it wont eat f/t, then a gray area presents itself wherein drastic measures might need to be taken. People do funny things when there little scaled obsessions don't want to feed.

    Myself,...I prefer not not sugar-coat; if you keep reptiles, rodents are going to die, period...the way it dies is usually decided by how it makes the human feel, i.e., most people feel like crap when they whack it against an immovable object, and I don't like doing that myself.

    So, unless I have a snake worth 5K, I feed live.

    Thats as close and accurate to nature as it gets.

    BrandonsBalls
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