Am I sinister?

[BloodyBaroness]

But...I never mentioned Carpe at all.

It fell after his post, and all of us that know his history, know what time it is. The dots were not hard to connect.

Regardless, I think we ALL and I mean ALL of us need to do a little better about dog piling and diving down throats. Once something has been said, leave it and at least give the OP a fighting chance to explain. If they choose not to respond, walk away, don't bicker amongst ourselves and look like a bunch of self righteous jerks UNLESS IT IS WARRANTED by the posters follow up. Then by all means blast with both barrels.

 

[diamondlil]

Personally, I think your sinister if you fish with a hook. I mean, fish deserve to be killed as humanely as possible if your going to kill them for food. Fighting for your life with a hook in your mouth just is not something I would want to put any living creature through the pain and torture of. Much simpler is to simply break the fishes neck and lob off his head in one stroke. Same goes for many animals we use for food.

Then I'm a sinister person. I fish both for food and for pleasure. The seafish I catch to eat are quickly dispatched, the freshwater fish I catch for pleasure are released as quickly and as gently as possible. I'm well aware that would make me a bad person in the eyes of some people. My personal feeling is that catching a few fish to eat, killing them quickly and taking them home is preferable to buying fish trawled for and suffocated in nets along with bycatch that are discarded. but that's off-topic, to say the least.
On topic, I don't give mice my snakes eat names to enhance the experience, but I don't think it's particularly odd or wrong to do so. 90% of the people I know, most of my work colleagues for example, think just owning snakes is freaky, so who am I to judge another keeper over such a little quirk?

 

[dave partington]

But...I never mentioned Carpe at all.

I thought you meant a 'banned color morph name'.

Carpe's made a couple of thought provoking posts, which I got something out of (after cooling off for a couple days and digesting it because fresh thoughts and fresh ideas can be, ya know, intimidating), & I repped him for them.

Two of my 'live only' feeders finally switched over to f/t after nearly 2 years. Thanks wholly to a post Starsevol made. Three adults are still on live only. I just stay with them during the kill and make sure I get the wooden stick in the rodents mouth quickly during the kill, so the rodent doesn't damage the snake. It brings me no pleasure. And I continue trying tricks to get the live feeders to switch over. I'd go back and rep the post if I could find it, and, it just seemed so foreign and wrong to me at the time. They won't eat warm freshly CO2-chambered prey doing the Zombie Dance on forceps. One female Tessera, the original male Vanishing Pattern, and a male high white reverse okee "het" VP. So far, all of their offspring take f/t on the first try.

Sometimes it's easier to let someone else have the last word rather then drag it on and on and on.

 

[starsevol]

I thought you meant a 'banned color morph name'.

Carpe's made a couple of thought provoking posts, which I got something out of (after cooling off for a couple days and digesting it because fresh thoughts and fresh ideas can be, ya know, intimidating), & I repped him for them.

Two of my 'live only' feeders finally switched over to f/t after nearly 2 years. Thanks wholly to a post Starsevol made. Three adults are still on live only. I just stay with them during the kill and make sure I get the wooden stick in the rodents mouth quickly during the kill, so the rodent doesn't damage the snake. It brings me no pleasure. And I continue trying tricks to get the live feeders to switch over. I'd go back and rep the post if I could find it, and, it just seemed so foreign and wrong to me at the time. They won't eat warm freshly CO2-chambered prey doing the Zombie Dance on forceps. One female Tessera, the original male Vanishing Pattern, and a male high white reverse okee "het" VP. So far, all of their offspring take f/t on the first try.

Sometimes it's easier to let someone else have the last word rather then drag it on and on and on.

Really? Wow, thank you, dp. You just made my day!