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[ratsncorns]

Looks like that boy was on the Dean Arnold snake-diet...I wonder where they got a popsicle stick big enough? :grin01:

LOL! :sidestep:

 

[Plissken]

Dogs are more important to me then most humans....truth hurts..
excuse me you are comparing mice to dogs....no comparison. Mice are stupid little rodets who reporudes faster then you can get the first litter out of the cage. Dogs are part of a family.
so it is ok to think: "Oh the snake is hungry, let's through him our little girl, she is appropriate size." no differece in my mind..

no matter what anyone says, they will not change my mind set on this, so don't try...

Yes, I am comparing mice to dogs.
Both are living, feeling creatures. And mice CAN be part of a family. You can become emotionally attached to ANY animal. At one time, goldfish were a part of my family. We are animals ourselves and we do not have the right to judge other beings by their importance.

I'm not trying to change your mind, as jenkva said, I am just offering my own opinion. I'm not trying to argue; just having a discussion on an interesting topic!

 

[jenkva]

I don't know if people make good food for snakes but I know it occasionally happens. I remember a news report from five years ago about a little girl being eaten by a pet snake. That would be horrible!

Personally I don't see a problem feeding a dog to a snake. I wouldn't do it. I had a pet dog growing up. I wouldn't be able to forget that the food item could potintualy be someones life-long companion. Actually that's the exact reason I hate feeding live mice. The first time I had to get live was for my nieces snake. I felt so bad because while I was at the store a little boy was picking out some mice to be pets. I couldn't help thinking that the mice I chose could have made great pets to someone. I'm pretty well over that now but it still lurks in the back of my mind. F/t is a different story, it has the emotional pull of chopped beef. (I did actually have a pet cow once.) Maby f/t dog would be ok :shrugs: .

Gosh, the snake must have been huge then to eat a little girl!?

Why don't you try to make us feel guilty about feeding poor little "potential" pets to our snakes....:laugh01:
I also prefer f/t but because of several things:
a) She has always been fed at the store with f/t and she has always been a good feeder so I do not see any point in changing feeding habits.
b) I do not want to have to run to the shop to get food every 5-6 days (very selfish, I know…LOL) it is a waste of time when you can get 10/20 at the same time and just put them in the freezer.
c) I do not want to risk of the food biting her (it should be the other way around) and then injure her as it happened to a friend’s snake. I saw one of hers (a little 2-3 weeks) eat a live pinkie, he just grabbed it, constricted and just suffocated it (as they do)…OMG, it squeaked and squeaked and squeaked, it was awful, I was thinking that I will never feed any of my snake live prey. I would rather have to thaw them than have to hear them squeak!

 

[scottrussell]

Dogs are more important to me then most humans....truth hurts..
excuse me you are comparing mice to dogs....no comparison. Mice are stupid little rodets who reporudes faster then you can get the first litter out of the cage. Dogs are part of a family.
so it is ok to think: "Oh the snake is hungry, let's through him our little girl, she is appropriate size." no differece in my mind..

no matter what anyone says, they will not change my mind set on this, so don't try...

i do agree that maybe in the grand scheme dogs may be more "important" than mice in a food chain sense. in comparison to the reproduction rate and how old they live. you couldn't supply as many dogs in the world as you can easily supply mice. so in that sense they are a bigger deal. but i would compare a dog a lot more with us eating cows or pigs. i've never had a pet pig but i've heard pigs can have a pretty good personality and they aren't just retarded braindead animals that sit in stall and wait for us to eat them. true seeing a dog being killed would upset me more than a mouse but then my rational thinking would kick in and tell me that it's not some huge sin as it may seem to be. i feel we've been conditioned to have such a love for those animals but i try to push my emotions aside and try to be a little more logical about it.

 

[BabyMowgli]

i feel we've been conditioned to have such a love for those animals but i try to push my emotions aside and try to be a little more logical about it.

I have no logic, dogs are more important then anything. period. i would feed a snake to a dog before even fathoming feeding a dog to a snake.

 

[BeckyG]

dogs are more important then anything. period.

This is your opinion, yet you state it as if it were a fact. You have no evidence to prove this statement to be true. It is just how you feel.

There is nothing wrong with having an opinion, and having it so strongly, but you must realize that others have different opinions. If you want people to accept your opinions, then you must accept theirs as being just as valid, even if you disagree with them.

Besides that, if you'd read the snopes link provided, you'd have found out that they weren't really feeding it dogs anyway.

 

[scottrussell]

I have no logic, dogs are more important then anything. period. i would feed a snake to a dog before even fathoming feeding a dog to a snake.

haha well your being honest and thats all you can do. my girlfriend is exactly the same way about arguments. i mean your admitting you think dogs are more important than snakes and have reason enough that at least one has to die haha.

 

[Muggle]

Gosh, the snake must have been huge then to eat a little girl!?

I just looked up some old news archives . I remembered it completely wrong :bang: . It was a young man apparently in the room when the berm was being feed live. He was killed by the snake but not eaten by it. Rescue workers had to get the snake off him. Ah well, still a horrible way to go. And it was ten years ago not five. I'm pretty sure that's the story I was trying to remimber but got all wrong. I couldn't find any other killer snakes in my area anyway.

 

[ratsncorns]

I just looked up some old news archives . I remembered it completely wrong :bang: . It was a young man apparently in the room when the berm was being feed live. He was killed by the snake but not eaten by it. Rescue workers had to get the snake off him. Ah well, still a horrible way to go. And it was ten years ago not five. I'm pretty sure that's the story I was trying to remimber but got all wrong. I couldn't find any other killer snakes in my area anyway.

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http://www.anapsid.org/coloburm.html