Agreed.



These rats are captive bred in large numbers for the purpose of feeding to snakes or as pets. They're not pests if they're being intentionally bred for a purpose...



Feeding videos can be neat - I have one of my monitor disemboweling his prekilled mouse, and it's freaking sweet to see someone you know on a video feeding an animal notorious for being hard to start in captivity. (Have you ever seen a mangrove snake eat a small rat? It's kind of awesome.) Not so sweet to see a burm take out a live bunny and hear it screaming.



This one may or may not have been in poor taste. Maybe a different angle next time so the more delicate among us don't have to see the rat gasping for breath? Sucks for the rat either way. The point isn't that it's terrible to be feeding the snake a rat, it's just that most of us would prefer not to see the face of it slowly suffocating. If you like watching things slowly die, that's your call. I clicked it figuring I'd see a pretty pastel nail and constrict a rat, not necessarily looking for the "oh, I can see its face while it dies."



In any case, beautiful snake. Obviously well cared for with an excellent feeding response.



~jen
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"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

- Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

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