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Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Did you just say "feeding kittens to his pet alligator"?!?!??
No.
Because no one would ever do that.
Now now -- maybe the alligator won them fair and square in a poker game.
It doesn't sound all that different from feeding live mice to pet snakes.
I'm looking for a local news link but it's just on network, not on the web yet.
Apparently, the guy's lawyer is comparing kittens to rats fed to snakes.
It doesn't sound all that different from feeding live mice to pet snakes.
It's very different. Because I like cats.
But seriously, that's a good point. Do "cruelty to animals" laws typically make a distinction between "good" animals, such as pets, and "bad" animals like rats and mice?
It doesn't sound all that different from feeding live mice to pet snakes.
I totally agree.
This case is going to require a closer reading of animal cruelty laws. The people I know that have snakes, feed them dead rats (they buy them frozen from the pet store and nuke 'em). I've heard the mice and rats can bite or scratch the snakes enough to hurt them. There is a designation of "companion" animals and "feeder" animals.
The whole thing is bizarre. I can't believe it's legal to keep a fucking alligator.
At the very least, he may have stolen someone's cat.
I can't believe it's legal to keep a fucking alligator.
Well, there's that. I doubt it is.
The people I know that have snakes, feed them dead rats (they buy them frozen from the pet store and nuke 'em).
How is this any less cruel? Just because the killing and freezing is done by someone else doesn't change the fact that your pet's food is a critter that someone else would consider a pet in its own right.
It's the difference between feeding your cat chicken out of a can, and giving it a live baby chick. Morally, I'm not sure I see a clear difference.
Feeding someone else's cat to your pet alligator is a whole nother issue.