Like sure snakes look nice but i would be really fucked up if i had to give it a living or dead rat every half a week or so. Only reason im not vegan is cos of that thin layer of separation between what i eat and the animal it came from, so i dont feel awful everytime i eat, do yall not feel any of that?

    • AliceBToklas [she/her]
      1·
      4 years ago

      They don't all like eating those though, sometimes you have to feed them live.

        • AliceBToklas [she/her]
          2·
          4 years ago

          From what I understand just because of knowing reptile keepers, they eventually do get used to frozen but sometimes can get picky again. But also, frozen is more expensive than keeping a colony of rats to feed from and has health risks too so live is generally the safer and healthier for the snake option.

            • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              I mean, the reptiles kept at my house are all on frozen already (they're not mine, my roommates, he's aiming to breed them) but another friend also looking to breed his has a colony of rats going to feed like 14ish ball pythons.

              obv these are both just people doing "the cool snake thing" and will go down the level up rabbit hole while there's media and potential profit and the kinda normalization of snake keeping.... and like I guess most snake keepers aren't doing this? idk, the other snake keeper I know has one snake that she completely forgot about once she had a baby. so like, I'm not loving my view of the pipeline and I def think the whole thing is a pyramid scheme that's gonna fall apart and leave people with a shitload of reptiles they're keeping as investments that aren't worth a fraction they paid for them... but who knows when exactly that'll happen? because uhh I know some people who might be interested in knowing that. and one of them owes me money lol

          • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            has health risks too

            Live rodents are a injury risk to the snake. There is nothing unhealthy about frozen rodents, just like there is nothing unhealthy about frozen food for people. It preserves nutrients.

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

            • gay [any]
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              4 years ago

              Couldn't the person just kill the rodents they breed before feeding them

              • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Yes. That's not live feeding. I'm only against live feeding.

                • gay [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  I see. I have no idea what that would be called or if it has any benefits for people who don't breed reptiles though