Serp said:
So I take it that braining, lizard scenting, chicken, tuna, and other ways to trick stubborn hatchlings into eating something they'd normally not eat, are also unethical and wrong.
Cornsnakes don't eat lizards or chickens? Maybe not as hatchlings, but the fact that its programmed into their instinct as food is another thing. Braining is plausible too. I've had many a snake squeeze a live mouse to the point that its grey-matter ended up on the outside, when they smelled it it made them squeeze harder and act more aggressive to the food.
For some reason those don't seem as inherently bad as tricking a snake that eats snakes to get it's 'jiggy on' with it instead. Not to mention most of my corns are very skittish from the scent of my kingsnake on my hands, so I can't imagine how they must feel being in a container with one for breeding purposes.
Tuna juice, I think that's a little out of their range.
Besides, you should know that's all a moot point with me anyway. If a stubborn or non-feeder doesn't have the will to eat on its own, I'm certainly not going to force the issue for my own selfish purposes. That's the whole reason I got a kingsnake.
Roy said:
Not if you consider that the only reason to force them to live is that you want them to.In the natural course of things, these little ones would die.
If they don't eat in a reasonable amount of time around here, I am no safe haven from Nature or God.
I think the sarcastic folks are just out now to try and prove their points. Whatever they may be. Nit-picking any little thing to death whether they have anything to do with the subject or not. Seems to be the way it always ends up. So.. :wavey:
