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I decided to remove the original post, description, and URL. I think it has been up long enough. People know enough of it now that they can go find it pretty easily (I hope to flag it), and I can’t bear anymore to aid in the spread of this hateful content. I feel like it’s been polluting the board with evil since the second I posted it, even though I was trying to get it taken down. Leaving it up here won’t help matters greatly. Thank you, everyone who helped to flag it, I’m continuing to try to get this stuff removed.
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Awww I cant watch it and im kinda glad I cant, but it does sound like you certainly know what you are talking about. I will flag it as soon as I get home. 🙁
That’s umm… yeah I wouldn’t worry too much, the video will be gone soon. The comments are building up pretty fast.
If you have a soft spot for animals I suggest you don’t even click the link, it would probably just make you cry. It will get removed, don’t fret it.
Man, that’s appauling. I don’t have to see the videos; I understood your post clearly. I work with snakes and own 3 myself, but that’s not right. Our snakes get pre-killed (actually defrosted) rats, and they STILL constrict their food even though it’s already dead. It’s people like that who give the rest of us snake owners a bad rap. :negative:
I have a ball python that won’t eat anything but live (man how I *wish* he’d head frozen, not only would it be much more convenient, but I also wouldn’t have to sit there and watch him kill a rat), but I put the rat in, let the snake do his thing, and supervise until I’m just as sure as the snake that the rat is dead and not going to harm him, and the worst for the rat never lasts more than a minute or so.
Some folks, on the other hand, keep snakes as pets for entirely the wrong reasons.
I flagged it, I don’t know anything about feeding snakes but I believe you know what you’re talking about. I could not watch, I make sure to turn my speakers off and put a hand over my eyes just to be sure I wouldn’t accidently see something. I can not take it. Even reading your post had me tearing up. There is this commercial (can’t remember the station) that shows a bunch of abused/homeless animals while the song “You were always on my mind” plays. I sob every time that comes on.
For me, it’s the ASPCA’s announcement with Sarah McLachlan’s song “Angel”. She’s done a few commericals for them, but that one breaks me everytime. 😥
bayoudragon wrote:For me, it’s the ASPCA’s announcement with Sarah McLachlan’s song “Angel”. She’s done a few commericals for them, but that one breaks me everytime. 😥
Yes that one too! Oh I can’t stand it! 😥
Eleu wrote:bayoudragon wrote:For me, it’s the ASPCA’s announcement with Sarah McLachlan’s song “Angel”. She’s done a few commericals for them, but that one breaks me everytime. 😥
Yes that one too! Oh I can’t stand it! 😥
I can’t watch those either 😥
This was still really bothering me, so I decided to do a little fact checking. First off, he spelled the animal’s Latin name wrong. I can’t find any study or anything even remotely scientific on Google supporting this guy’s claim that it’s for research for UTA. Now, UTA could stand for a few things but let’s take a shot in the dark and guess University of Texas Arlington. The user lives in Mexico City. They’re just a wee bit far apart.
So we can give him the benefit of the doubt, or we can simply call the student attorney at University of Texas Arlington and let him know that a user/possible student has posted, under guise of the university’s research labs, content that the university would most likely NOT condone and would not like to be held responsible for. Which is exactly what I did. Thank you, UTA website.
I feed live animals to my frogs but we just toss the things in there and the frog grabs it within seconds and kills it. now before you say how bad it is you have to understand I have wild caught frogs that do NOT respond to dead food. I feed them various items (all feeder animals) worms,mice,rats,chicks even quail. This guy is an idiot and he is not doing research. I’ve encountered him before…on reptile forums he also feeds his snakes kittens. He is hated by alot more then peta.
Yeah, I agree. My sister keeps snakes and I often feed them for her if she’s out and I’m near the pet store, but if you feed live food (her snake also won’t take a dead mouse), then you need to make sure it’s done properly to make sure the snake is not harmed, and the prey animal does not needlessly suffer. It’s not that he fed the snake, it’s the improper way he did it that makes this so abusive. And then he claims it’s for research, misleading people into thinking it’s somehow justifiable.
Even if the exact same scene happened in nature, it wouldn’t be so cruel. This person had an opportunity to minimize the chick’s suffering and chose not to. Ooh. 😡 That’s what really disturbs me. Torture/killing of animals is very common in the psych profile of serial killers. It begins with a lack of empathy toward living creatures, then can extend to a lack of empathy for any being, human or otherwise. Ten years from now, if this person was on trial for killing 5 people, this would undoubtedly be cited as evidence of a deranged mind.
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