Remy
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It bothers me.// but the thing with them throwing the rats in the bag... those are feeder rats for snakes and large reptiles. If they gas them, the gasses get passed to your reptile. Granted, I hate the way that the animals are treated and I'm not in their defense on bit, just pointing out that they do supply pre-killed feeders, and that's the most efficient way to do it. I had to pre-kill rats for Jake (12' burmese python) because he wouldn't kill them himself and I had to break their necks.
This actually isn't true, when I had more reptiles I started breeding my own rats after I bought a bag of mice at a show and then realized that they all had their throats slitI got so mad I decided that I would breed my own feeders that way I knew for sure that they were at least being taken care of properly and killed humanely. I killed mine using CO2 gas, With enough CO2, you can drop a rat in a bucket and it will be dead before it hits the bottom and it will not harm the animal that will be eating it, I did this for years and so do many others.
The best thing you can do to stop this is to stop supporting any pet store that sells live animals. I know it can be hard to find them and it's not as much "fun" to go to a store that doesn't have animals but it is certainly much kinder. I prefer stores that don't sell animals but that have adoptions or animals that live at the shop.
I hate to say it and sound like this, but I get a little frustrated when people get mad about videos like these and swear up and down that if they ever saw an animal being treated that way that they would do this or that to the person, but then they turn around and eat animal products. :31: I will never tell you what you should or shouldn't eat, but honestly, farmed animals are treated way worse and on a much larger scale, yet everyone seems to overlook this. I hate that people seem to pick and choose which animals have the right to be treated with kindness, did you know that pigs are actually more intelligent than dogs? That chickens have 30 different calls in their language that humans can recognize and that cows are very social creatures that cry and mourn when their babies are taken from them so that humans can steal their milk? If you really want to see what happens go to EARTHLINGS - Make the Connection. | Nation Earth and watch their free documentary.
Okay, i'm off my soapbox now![]()
This is why I recently went vegetarian. I feel a lot better about myself now.
I really enjoyed eating it (taste, texture, etc), but the mental images of animals being so poorly treated really trumps that.