Sevaede
06-26-2006, 12:48 AM
My husband wants a snake. He has had several snakes before. I have had friends with snakes and have fed them before and only has this fear recently occured. He wants to breed his own feeders (as he had done in the past).
Anyways, we were debating about the best way to feed snakes. I confessed my fears and told him, "I absolutely do NOT want to hear or see little mice and rats screaming, choking, or any of the other colourful things." Don't get me wrong. I love snakes. I realize that everything has to eat and, in nature and other homes, this is how it happens. But I feel that we, ourselves, would somehow be disgracing and minimizing the importance of their lives and their sacrifices (their lives so others could go on and that sort). I, also, told him that this had to potential had to develop into irresponsibility as the snakes could get severely injured by mice and rats (A former friend of mine had a little mouse after it killed his snake.). He contested that it's *NEVER* been that way with any of his former babies. As well as, "Oh yeah. It's TOTALLY humane to put them in a bag and let them slowly freeze to death." We eventually came to reason and I said, "No, there are people who do it different ways..." and blah blah blah.
So, he eventually saw what I was talking about. We want to know how HE could go about doing all of this in the best and most humane way possible? Is there another way?
Thank you all.
Anyways, we were debating about the best way to feed snakes. I confessed my fears and told him, "I absolutely do NOT want to hear or see little mice and rats screaming, choking, or any of the other colourful things." Don't get me wrong. I love snakes. I realize that everything has to eat and, in nature and other homes, this is how it happens. But I feel that we, ourselves, would somehow be disgracing and minimizing the importance of their lives and their sacrifices (their lives so others could go on and that sort). I, also, told him that this had to potential had to develop into irresponsibility as the snakes could get severely injured by mice and rats (A former friend of mine had a little mouse after it killed his snake.). He contested that it's *NEVER* been that way with any of his former babies. As well as, "Oh yeah. It's TOTALLY humane to put them in a bag and let them slowly freeze to death." We eventually came to reason and I said, "No, there are people who do it different ways..." and blah blah blah.
So, he eventually saw what I was talking about. We want to know how HE could go about doing all of this in the best and most humane way possible? Is there another way?
Thank you all.