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I was looking at various snake videos on youtube and notice that the majority of them were feeding videos. Live prey the vast majority of the time. I understand that its the natural process. I'm just a little disturbed about the excitement I see in the keepers who are doing this. I feel it makes a lot of us constrictor keepers look sadistic. It portrays us in a very negative way. I'm a little worried only because of the possible future legislation to ban larger constrictors in private collections. These videos certainly don't help our case.

While this may be true, the majority of keepers that are likely to feed, film, and post in this manner are not serious hobbyists. They keep snakes to show off to their friends and show everyone how "sick" it is to watch them kill and eat. My advice is to reply to these videos in a way which will make people like this not want to post.

As for those who feed f/t and film it, I'm sure you see the difference in maturity level. In most of these cases, the keeper is calmly documenting the progress of a captive reptile. No laughs or hi-5's to been seen.
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Mike Curtin

Absolutely, most of us can distinguish between the show-offs and serious keepers. It seems that most of the stuff on Youtube is very immature.