Like sure snakes look nice but i would be really fucked up if i had to give it a living or dead rat every half a week or so. Only reason im not vegan is cos of that thin layer of separation between what i eat and the animal it came from, so i dont feel awful everytime i eat, do yall not feel any of that?

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The unnatural part is caging a snake to keep as a pet. The snake eating a mouse is the natural part.

    It's also unnatural to:

    • Feed the snake a fully domesticated animal (which store bought mice and rats are)
    • Drop an animal directly next to the snake (which stresses it out), instead of having it hunt and stalk its prey
    • Feed inside a small enclosure in which the prey has zero chance of escape. The majority of predation attempts in the wild end in failure.

    If true nature was the goal anyway, then you would be feeding your pets dirty pond water. So why not feed pre-killed, like the experts recommend? http://www.anapsid.org/prekill.html

    I dislike the people who choose to do like your science teacher because they're motivated by a desire to see a "cool show", but then they hide behind the defense of nature if someone questions the animal welfare of the prey (for which they are also responsible).

    • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      I fully agree actually. I wasn't trying to defend it, and your point is exactly what I meant with those two sentences. I don't think the snake should be kept as a pet at all.