'man' feeds kitten to his pet snake

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in·hu·mane/
Adjective:
Without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel.
Synonyms:
brutal - cruel

Being humane isnt limited to people. Just because it has human in the word.

I just spotted your edit, And good for you. The key words being "I do not consider it" That doesnt change the fact it is cruel, and therefore inhumane ;)
 
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wannabedamned said:
That doesnt change the fact it is cruel, and therefore inhumane ;)
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This isnt a fact, its your opinion. Nature itself is cruel, and the act of one animal eating another is caused by nature, not by humanity.

Also, feel free to enjoy this video, I think you will like it:

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One of my grandads would have found that funny and laughed, as he always did at anything violent on the telly.

It took me a while to stop clicking at around 8 seconds to watch the snake pounce at the wabbit again and again. I found it amazing to watch.
 
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bhavv said:
This isnt a fact, its your opinion. Nature itself is cruel, and the act of one animal eating another is caused by nature, not by humanity.

Also, feel free to enjoy this video, I think you will like it:

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You really are missing the whole point arent you. There is a human element involved here. And thats the part that this thread is about. We're well aware that animals eat each other. What makes this inhumane is the fact the MAN allowed it to happen for pleasure. The fact that the MAN also enjoys killing cats in other ways. So this isnt about food chains, its about a MAN being INHUMANE.

God, How bad is it that you're debating somethign and yet incapable of knowing what the debate is actually about :D

as for the video, I have a snake, a lizard and 3 cats. seeing animals kill each other is not new to me.
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wannabedamned said:
Search it out yourself, But it involved vacuum packing. But regardless of other deaths, He still acted inhumanely. Regardless of the act in itself being "Nature at work"

Anyways, I'm done. House cleaning time :(
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Absolutely nothing shows the two things as being linked to the same person.
 
Lot of uninformed crap in this thread. For the guy that says that live feeding is rife within the snake keeping community, you are taking rubbish. You are only allowed to feed live if the snake will not eat anything else. It is an absolute last resort if you have a non feeder, and the life of the snake is absolutely dependent on it.

Feeding live for 'entertainment' is against the law.

We keep snakes, and they all happily eat either defrosted rats or mice. I personally know many breeders including commercial ones, and they're the same.

To suggest that it's commonplace is plain wrong.
 
AberystwythLAD said:
If he's fed his snake the kitten thats not going to bother me in the slightest.
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bhavv said:
the person making the video didnt actually inflict any pain directly onto an animal.

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I dont see how an act that doesnt bring harm to another human could be classed as inhumane.
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You do realise that your reactions are clearly sociopathic in attitude?

You are both scary ******, please don't move anywhere near me :(
 
The reason why people feel it's worse for a kitten is because we are more attached to kittens than rats obviously, we look at kittens and think awwwww they're so cute and most have been around cats more than rats.

It does not excuse the fact it is abit sick and cruel.

The person who fed the cat to the snake should be locked up because it's obvious he's got a screw loose.
 
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Irrespective of the type of animal he fed or peoples opinion of what snakes do in the wild, you are simply not allowed to do what he in the UK did because of this legislation which is what the RSPCA are seeking to prosecute under. If he posted a video of him feeding a live rat, or more likely for that size python a rabbit then they would still look to prosecute him in the same way.

You have to feed your snakes the already dead food to satisfy that the animal you feed was killed in a humane manner or you are breaking this law. Since responsible breeders will feed a hatchling snake on frozen dead pinkies after the first shed, before they sell them on to a wholesalers or retailer in order to turn a profit, there is zero need for any snake available to the public to be kept on live food, and amazingly snake keepers even when/where its allowed tend not to feed live food as rodents can bite or claw snakes before they're consumed and the infections they can suffer can be expensive and difficult to treat.
 
Kittens are seen as domestic animals, I think that's why it upsets a lot of people where as generally rodents are seen as vermin (before anyone assumes anything I own 2 chinchillas and a hamster so I love our furry rodent friends). I wonder if the reaction would have been any different if it had been a puppy. In my eyes, it's not entertaining to watch anything eat live food and it makes my stomach turn.
 
Monkeh said:
Irrespective of the type of animal he fed or peoples opinion of what snakes do in the wild, you are simply not allowed to do what he in the UK did because of this legislation which is what the RSPCA are seeking to prosecute under. If he posted a video of him feeding a live rat, or more likely for that size python a rabbit then they would still look to prosecute him in the same way.

You have to feed your snakes the already dead food to satisfy that the animal you feed was killed in a humane manner or you are breaking this law. Since responsible breeders will feed a hatchling snake on frozen dead pinkies after the first shed, before they sell them on to a wholesalers or retailer in order to turn a profit, there is zero need for any snake available to the public to be kept on live food, and amazingly snake keepers even when/where its allowed tend not to feed live food as rodents can bite or claw snakes before they're consumed and the infections they can suffer can be expensive and difficult to treat.
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First of all, any snake is available to the public if you have the correct permit. Secondly, you can feed live as a last resort. I don't and have never needed to.
 
There are several people ignoring what is being said by 'sensible' people, and seem to be deliberatley missing the point. IMO this is tantamount to trolling for the sake of a reaction, and to be quite frank, is bloody retarded.

You DO NOT:

- Feed live mammals to reptiles that are otherwise happy to take pre-killed food. This creates unecessary surrefing for AT LEAST the animal being killed. Pre-killed food is either clonked on the head (insta-death), or suffocated in a CO2 chamber (humane as the animal dozes off painlessly).

- Film the feeding of a kittten to a python. It's NOT nature at work, it's a sick person at work, and I hope for this that they are brought to justice.

You will find that there are very, very few people out there who keep exotic predatory reptiles that advocate live feeding of mammals. Mammals are usually far more than able to fight back and damage the predatory creature, thus necessitating the euthanising of them prior to feeding.

Are people ignoring this on purpose? I remember when I first realised that some lizards/frogs/all snakes needed various sizes of mammals to feed them. I was 12/13 at this point, and despite thinking it was a bit harsh, I realised it was different strokes for different folks, and found that the hobby of reptile keeping was actually very interesting. I also realised the moral implications of feeding live mammals to predatory animals at this age, and when I found out the food that these animals are given was humanely pre-killed (mice/rats/guinea pigs/rabbits/pigs etc) , I realised that this was an acceptable way of dealing with the ownership and upkeep of reptiles. YOU ARE NOT MEANT TO FEED CARNIVOROUS MAMMALS TO REPTILES FULL STOP.

Seeing the video as anything other than unecessary, I'm sorry to say, is a sad reflection on someone's inability to tell what is right and necessary, and what is wholly wrong.

I have seen several videos of people feeding live mammals to big spiders, snakes/whatever, and I find it pretty much equally as disgusting as the kitten video. However, I am a cat lover (as well as many other animals), and seeing someone DELIBERATELY trying to provoke a reaction in such a manner is bloody sick minded.

The person whom you see in the python video looks quite a lot like the person in the vacuum pack video (from what we can see of them). It wouldn't surprise my that they are the same person, and would be more worrying if they weren't. I don't care if you're not some bleeding-heart animal lover, just standing there like some baws saying 'nature at work, brah', is being small minded for the sake of being small minded, just to provoke a reaction, which brings me back to the first point. You are trolling.
 
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