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tpalopoli
at Sun Apr 15 15:35:54 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tpalopoli ]
what I find entertaining is a monitor acting like the awesome predator it is. As I have stated in my opinion that iguana suffered less than the FT mice and rats I often feed my monitors.
To be clear the length of the iguana vs BT was provided simply to lead into the tail hanging out of his mouth as it rotted, not to imply they were close in size. They werent, the BT dwarfed the iguana by a significant amount. If he would have got him by the head it would have been over quicker than a thumped mouse. So I got him by the head and ended it quickly when it was obvious it was going to last a long time.
So is that ok? You are pretty much saying it would be ok if it was a smaller iguana? How big? What ratio have you decided is ok? An anole is ok? What about a big anole and a little monitor? Hmmm interesting.
You see, that is what monitors are. They are carnivores, predators, scavengers. They are brutal and natural and wonderful for all of that. Dress it how you want to make it pretty...buy that big bag of packed frozen mice or that packaged ground up turkey and pretend it's ok and judge me, but you are fooling yourself. You killed those mice and those turkeys, and they lived and died terribly for no other reason than your selfish entertainment (owning a monitor).
Is feeding these awesome creatures just a dirty by-product of owning them? NO it is a big part of what they are! I want the whole animal, I am amazed by it all. If customers cringe at a monitor eating then I tell them they are in the wrong store...PetCrapCo is down the road.
So it is me giving so-called responsible reptile owners a bad name? I think it is you sir, you and your hypocrisy and your conditional respect for such awesome creatures that give herpetoculture a bad name. It is people like yourself that want a monitor until they realize it bites and whips and defecates and needs a huge enclosure. Oh and it eats! It eats rotten, live, dead...it eats A LOT and it is YOU that is pretending your hands are clean from the blood and the death, not ME.
Tom
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RE: Ionides eaating anoles. - tpalopoli, Sun Apr 15 15:35:54 2007