Better to ask snake owners that... probably because they see such lizards as beautiful and like having them on display? Same with fish... they're pretty boring too but people keep them.
Well, I don't own a snake and don't intend to. What other reason would you have one for? Watch it lay there? It's about as exciting as a pet rock.
It's natural for a dog to eat live prey as well. *Watches dingoes, wolves and cape African hounds go at it*
There is nothing natural with live feeding because of the very fact that it's in captivity. Artificial enclosure, giving a domesticated animal to another domesticated animal... it is the SAME thing in principle. The "but it's natural" argument for such things is a load of BS.
As said before, no different to the cat in terms of intent and level of cruelty involved. I am going to assume that people are outraged because the cat suffered when it did not have to, am I correct? A mouse would feel the same thing as the cat if being fed live to another animal. The fear is there, the fact that there's no chance to escape... and the eventual being eaten alive bit.
Ah but of course, kittens are cuter eh? Cuteness should not be relevant - especially when the animals involved can feel the same thing. Then there's the very fact that live feeding is ILLEGAL in some countries. I am sure it is in NZ.
Not necessarily. Domesticated dogs are more or less no longer true hunters, those that are animal aggressive as puppies should be trained otherwise. What happens though is many teach their dogs to kill.
Your points go all over the place though, in the end this was an execution...not for the sustainence for the dog.
Better to ask snake owners that... probably because they see such lizards as beautiful and like having them on display? Same with fish... they're pretty boring too but people keep them.
Quite the conundrum :hmm:Would you feed 5 kittens to a dog if it would get you 10 minutes alone in a room with that guy?
God forbid someone feeds their lizard a live cricket or their fish a live worm... oh the humanity!
i'd like to see a chihuahua eat a live cat or a 100% safe and domesticated dingo/wolf/hyena that will only eat dry "dog" food. from what you're saying, and how you misconstrued my words, all of that is possible. get a life you fucking troll.
God forbid someone feeds their lizard a live cricket or their fish a live worm... oh the humanity!
Would you feed 5 kittens to a dog if it would get you 10 minutes alone in a room with that guy?
seriously.
I feed lil baby mice to my snake all the time, guess I should go to jail and be beaten too
or all those goldfish I fed my tiger oscars
That'd make you quite hypocritical to comment on this issue then. Those baby mice could have potentially been someone's pets, like those kittens could have been. No different really.
I'm not saying not to feed your snake mice, I'm just saying it's ridiculous to be so outraged about feeding kittens to another meat eating animal when you're doing exactly the same thing in principle with the mice to another meat eating mammal.
Much like the person who sees a cow killed for food on TV, getting all "aww they killed the cow, that's an outrage" while tucking into a nice medium rare steak.
That'd make you quite hypocritical to comment on this issue then. Those baby mice could have potentially been someone's pets, like those kittens could have been. No different really.
I'm not saying not to feed your snake mice, I'm just saying it's ridiculous to be so outraged about feeding kittens to another meat eating animal when you're doing exactly the same thing in principle with the mice to another meat eating mammal.
Much like the person who sees a cow killed for food on TV, getting all "aww they killed the cow, that's an outrage" while tucking into a nice medium rare steak.
Don't get me wrong, what that guy did to the kittens was terrible and he should be punished, BUT you're doing something really similar.
Not hard converting them to prekilled. There are plenty of articles and videos on the subject.
mouse bred for snake eating != domesticated kitten
Captive yes, wild, not so much...
Oh please, don't be so pedantic. You knew exactly what I meant. Unless you didn't get the point, which is why you're being so defensive about things?
A very small snake is not going to eat a large rabbit either, despite the fact that snakes can still eat rabbits... thus your rat-dog analogy is moot. Dogs are carnivores. We don't give them live food now because we don't need to and it's cheaper. But that doesn't mean they don't have the capacity to...
You obviously can't make the distinction between an insect or annelid and a mammal. Mammals can feel pain. They have pain receptors, have a cerebral cortex and exhibit emotion from fear and distress. Nothing of which the two you mentioned has, which is why invertebrates aren't even covered here.
Except that mice which are bred in captivity ARE domesticated animals, feeders or pets. Both of them are domesticated animals.
When you cry about the apparent cruelty to the kittens, understand that those mice are feeling the same thing. Double standards are amazing, yes?
pain is a relative term and can be applied to plants if you so wanted.
pain equates to damage and when a plant is damaged, some develop a means to fend off that pain/damage with thorns or toxins and other such means. if you try to cause pain to an insect, it will run away or try to defend itself from said pain/damage.
i'm sure you're a vegetarian since you can't stand harming animals/mammals.
even then, forget about eating plants since they are living and in a sense can feel pain. fruits contain seeds which are basically the equivalent of an embryo in it's amniotic fluid.
i know it's been frowned upon in the past, but i feel it's justified for a troll like yourself. it would be better if you just did everyone a favor and DIAF.
Double-standard or not, there's a line in there somewhere between pets and food. If the asshole wouldn't have given the dog the kittens, I wouldn't have a problem with it. If a stray dog eats a few kittens, so what. Animals eat other animals, and most likely the prey doesn't enjoy the process.