Another PREVENTABLE tragedy with live feeding - Page 4

forkedtongue · 01-17-14, 09:03 AM

This was off Reddit....

Guy said his room-mate put it in the cage and went to sleep, woke up and decided to take some cool brah pics and send them around.

(not sure if this is mentioned on the later pages, didn't get past the first page)

KORBIN5895 · 01-17-14, 07:44 PM

I'd almost guarantee that snake is dead.

bigsnakegirl785 · 01-17-14, 07:48 PM

I guess it could be, but it looks like it's lifting it's head up in the air. I know the gaping mouth isn't anything to go off of, but the snake would have to be alive to lift its head up. If it was alive, it wasn't alive for much longer. The photo could be misleading and it's head is actually against the glass, but just looking at it it doesn't look that way. Either way, it's a very inhumane way for that snake to die and I hope the owner learned from this mistake.

CosmicOwl · 01-17-14, 07:53 PM

I'll play devils advocate here for a minute. What if that was somebody's pet rat that they decided to feed a snake to?

poison123 · 01-17-14, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

I'll play devils advocate here for a minute. What if that was somebody's pet rat that they decided to feed a snake to?

Where did you get that idea from?

CosmicOwl · 01-17-14, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by poison123

Where did you get that idea from?

It's a hypothetical question.

bigsnakegirl785 · 01-18-14, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl

It's a hypothetical question.

I would not agree with it in the slightest if it was someone's pet. As long as it was bred/sold for the sole purpose of being snake food, it's fine. The snake has to eat, but there's no reason to use someone else's pet for food. I had plenty of chances to go get rabbits for Cloud this summer, but they were all pets whose owners would want them to go to good homes and be pets. I couldn't in good conscience feed one of them to my snake, so I looked for meat rabbits and I always let people know exactly what they were going to be used for.

poison123 · 01-17-14, 07:57 PM

Mouse**** .....

KORBIN5895 · 01-23-14, 10:42 PM

Here is a link to the retic eating puppy story.

Leaving Facebook...

kelzerman · 01-24-14, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Here is a link to the retic eating puppy story.

Leaving Facebook...

Strictly idiotic.

Oh, reading his facebook posts were utterly painful due to his/her illiteracy.

CosmicOwl · 01-24-14, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Here is a link to the retic eating puppy story.

Leaving Facebook...

I'm sure it's been stated before, but people like that should not be allowed own pets, and they should have their children removed. This is how somebody's kid ends up getting killed and eaten by a python.

marvelfreak · 01-24-14, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Here is a link to the retic eating puppy story.

Leaving Facebook...

People like that just need a freaking bullet in their head.

shaunyboy · 01-23-14, 11:50 PM

gruesome stuff Wayne

the ignorance or laziness of some keepers pisses me off,especially when as said,this entire incident was 100% avoidable

cheers shaun

Mack0331 · 01-27-14, 09:28 PM

I am new to boas I just got a dums last week. As a noob I had no idea this could happen I never would have even thought it was possible. The place I got the snake from said it only eats live rats so I got one and put it in the cage with it. As a kid I remember being at a large pet store the had MANY snakes all of them had a live eat in the cage so I thought that it was normal. Lucky for me my boa ate the rat no problems but from now on I will be sure to watch when I feed it. I just wanted to share that to point out some people like me who are new just don't know these things and are not doing it out of stupidity but out of bad info from pet stores.

Snakefood · 01-27-14, 09:35 PM

ya, pet stores tend towards bad info, I watched a rep at a pet store tell someone to feed their cornsnake crickets. After the rep walked away, I gave the customer the correct info on feeding their snake. It's amazing what petstore rep's will say!!

Even when they know better, there is a pet store out here that sells snakes that I used to volunteer with (just so I could play with the snakes, and they purposely tell people to feed full grown BP's mice because they make more $$ on multiple mouse sales than single rat sales. The owner told me that outright!! I told him I was going to tell them the proper way to feed their snakes according to the snakes health, not his profit margin.

As you can probably guess....... I don't volunteer there anymore!! LMAO!!