'man' feeds kitten to his pet snake
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Yes it does, but no it doesn't.
You will never get a conviction against a normal battery farm.
The laws simply are not based on evidence.
As I have pointed out.
They wont all switch easily, plus its not exactly healthy to forcefeed them all the time.
True
Main thing is dogs and cats have been kept by humans for a while because they provide a useful purpose other than food. Cats for killing vermin, dogs for protection/alerting of intruders, rounding up sheep, hunting etc...
We've got an emotional attachment to them and a large % of people have grown up knowing a dog/cat and wouldn't like to see one being treated cruely or killed.
And?
Cats will eat pretty much everything and I think you would be prosecuted if you let your snake out to hunt.
Daft argument.
this guy got away with it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5999091/Pet-cat-eaten-by-13ft-python.html
though it was accidental.....
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I think you'll find most reptile keepers feed dead food because most reptiles WILL eat dead mice, and they don't pose any risk to the snake. Live feeding is only permitted under law when it's the only option for a reptile to feed (e.g, live food or they die). Yes, it's more common in the US because they don't have laws on it, but even so, it only happens with commercial breeders that breed their own live food, because it stops them having to kill them all. A home reptile keeper will (again, most of the time) only feed live food if necessary, or for fun. If it's for fun, it's wrong, no matter what animal it is. The fact it is a kitten is simply to shock people watching the video, or impress them, or something of the sort.
I'm disturbed by it - we're generally conditioned to like little kittens etc... the other poster might well be correct as far as this guy is concerned re: sociopathic tendencies.
Comparing Children (who don't know better) to the actions of an adult is ridiculous.
Within the rules of the Animal Welfare Act (which I'm well aware you seem to oppose).
If you're aware of what the general consenus is on the matter, why are you provoking others?
What makes a cat different to a mouse, they have the same mindset, both make great pets, both are vermin.
Maybe I should get a python would stop the cats coming in the garden and ******* everywhere.
perhaps becuase I oppose double standards.
cats are not vermin.
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Some of you people amuse me.
I would like to argue that murder is just fine and dandy, and that the laws surrounding it are just 'emotional'.. I mean it goes on all the time so what's the difference? *crazy*.
On a more serious note, it's pretty sick that someone thought it was just fine to do that. In this country cat's are generally considered pets not livestock. Heck why not set up a fast food business that deals exclusively in fried cat and see how sucessful you are?
On a more serious note, it's pretty sick that someone thought it was just fine to do that. In this country cat's are generally considered pets not livestock. Heck why not set up a fast food business that deals exclusively in fried cat and see how sucessful you are?
Many people are brought up with rabbits and are disgusted at the thought of using rabbits for food. Should my right to eat rabbits be banned becuase of emotional attachment and no evidence or reason.
And why should I have too ey your emotional attachments. It's not based on any tangiable facts.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to start up a cat farm for sole purpose of food, or horse farm for food. As far as I'm aware both of those are illegal in the uk. What's the resonating or evidence for that. There simply isn't any.
I find the video quite interesting. Surely with some of these pets people keep its cruel not to let them carry out their natural predatory skills?
You don't stop pest controllers using dogs to catch rats, you don't stop home owners using cats to kill mice, you let lizards kill insects and hawking to kill pigeons at places like football stadiums/Trafalgar square. Why is all this perfectly acceptable but not to allow a snake to kill prey it feels is within it predatory feeding frame? For social reasons I can see how many with the "fury pet syndrome" can be more disturbed seeing a kitten be killed or a puppy, but I don't think you should stop letting people let their pets kills animals which are often referred to as pests and that are exterminated anyway. Seems hypocritical to me.
You don't stop pest controllers using dogs to catch rats, you don't stop home owners using cats to kill mice, you let lizards kill insects and hawking to kill pigeons at places like football stadiums/Trafalgar square. Why is all this perfectly acceptable but not to allow a snake to kill prey it feels is within it predatory feeding frame? For social reasons I can see how many with the "fury pet syndrome" can be more disturbed seeing a kitten be killed or a puppy, but I don't think you should stop letting people let their pets kills animals which are often referred to as pests and that are exterminated anyway. Seems hypocritical to me.
Yeah, I agree. This is fine. Imma buy a lion and a labrador and feed that to it. Same thing, yeah.
TBH anyone that feeds a live mammal to another animal needs a kick in the face, regardless of whether it's only a mouse or a cat/horse/buffalo/whale/whatever. Fair enough if there's no sufferening not so bad, but a constrictor doesn't exactly end the life of its prey instantly. There's plenty of suffering involved there, and someone that thinks that's acceptable and does/allows such things to happen under their control is clearly not right in the head.
TBH anyone that feeds a live mammal to another animal needs a kick in the face, regardless of whether it's only a mouse or a cat/horse/buffalo/whale/whatever. Fair enough if there's no sufferening not so bad, but a constrictor doesn't exactly end the life of its prey instantly. There's plenty of suffering involved there, and someone that thinks that's acceptable and does/allows such things to happen under their control is clearly not right in the head.
Agree
No, Nerusy is correct, this behaviour is sociopathic, plenty of research on this.
and...
...No, you Google it,
obvious fact is obvious.
Thread requires ^^Tank^^ to offer an inventive death, to which I'd probably agree with
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