I must admit the "enjoy" part was maybe questionable. But we don't know who sits behind the computer. We don't know if this person was trying to troll or if he just thought it was some nice shots. People say "enjoy" to pics they post all the time. This was really a knee jerk responce by most . The pics did not make me think anything bad at all. Matter of fact I thought it might have gotten one or two responses and that was it. I would have thought this person was not trlling or if he was then he gets a 2 out of a possible 10 for a troll attempt. Noty worth going there IMO.

Another thing is when peole here are saying the snake should have been ill to feed why is that? Because he is wasting $$? Or because the snake is suffering more than a rodent???

I have tried to kill rats in my younger days for food by using forceps to snap their necks (an acceptable way of ueuthanizing a few years ago) and the other rats would sense the kill and start on the attack or flee to save their lives. A rodent also knows the fear assciated wityh being eaten more than a snake. They are much more intelligent than a snake.

The pic of the snake with its mouth open illicited a lot of responses because "WE" as humans., associate whats going on and compare it to our most horrible nightmares.. A snake does not understand the fear of being swallowed because its not wired that way. Its instinct is to get away. It also is then suffocated in the belly of the other snake. I don't see this as an inhuman of killing for a snake. Do we really know if freezing a snake is that much better for its psyschy?

Another poiint is this is the kingsnake forum and not the corn forum. A king (*especially the eastern varieties) eat snakes as their first meal. Its fair to share this here. That is why we try to scent mice with water snakes or corn snakes. It is what they eat, period. Its only us who are desensitived to making our snakes eat rodents. How about raising a water snake farm or corn snakes for food? Nice clean parasite free ... I know people ho have success feeding birds to colubrids. Yes they raise them just for that purpose. Their growth rates are much better and the snakes are healthier becauae of the baby bird chow.. I think this practice of feeding birds will take over the mouse feeding for us larger scale breeders in the future.

This whole thread has been the most illogical one on this forum to date.

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