How is feeding live rabbits to your snake not considered animal cruelty?

I'm not sure. There was something in the news last week about a guy being charged with animal cruelty for mowing down some geese (which most consider pests) in his car. Yet my body can shoot a deer with an arrow and track its blood trail for hours while is dies a slow, painful death and that is perfectly legal.

It's called mother nature. I used to have a pet python that I would feed live mice, rats and hamsters to. The rodent would vary on which one the pet store had the best deal on. But yeah that was awesome watching that creature attack, strangle to death and eat his prey.

Lol a snake eating food isn't animal cruelty. Weird that the kid enjoys it but not animal cruelty.

Would killing a tapeworm via medicine in your pet be considered animal cruelty because you're killing a tapeworm? Or would it be considered animal cruelty to NOT kill the tapeworm and let your pet die?

PETA and other animal advocates who take this line of thinking that is inherent in OP's point, then they are clinically insane.

If the kid ate the live rabbit, that would animal cruelty.

Star wrote:

If the kid ate the live rabbit, that would animal cruelty.

Do you know where the term rabbit starvation comes from?

weird rules wrote:

I'm not sure. There was something in the news last week about a guy being charged with animal cruelty for mowing down some geese (which most consider pests) in his car. Yet my body can shoot a deer with an arrow and track its blood trail for hours while is dies a slow, painful death and that is perfectly legal.

That would be because he wasn't able to aim his car for a clean kill and likely didn't follow up to see.

The hunter with the bow aims to place his shot so that the animal doesn't even know it's been hit, nor does he follow the trail for hours while the animal suffers. A well placed shot kills within a minute or so and it may take the hunter hours to follow the blood trail but the animal is dead during that period.

You've never hunted, have you?

what are you talking about? wrote:

Star wrote:

If the kid ate the live rabbit, that would animal cruelty.

Do you know where the term rabbit starvation comes from?

Sure, but that doesn't mean you can't eat them. Plus it probably doesn't apply to all types of Rabbit. There's different species you know. Or don't know.

Watership Down shopper wrote:

what are you talking about? wrote:

Do you know where the term rabbit starvation comes from?

Sure, but that doesn't mean you can't eat them. Plus it probably doesn't apply to all types of Rabbit. There's different species you know. Or don't know.

What are you talking about? People eat rabbits, they have so for a long time now, and still eat them today.

How is eating meat from slaughtered animals not considered animal cruelty? Oh wait, it's ok because we make the rules as we please and whatever gets screwed over doesnt matter because we have more power lol. OP is just another media and govt brainwashed sheep.

Rabbits are a traditional part of the human diet.

Feeding a snake it's natural diet is anything but cruel.

A better example of animal cruelty is feeding obligate carnivores like cats and dogs a vegan diet, resulting in disability and disease. Slow poison similar to the child abuse of vegan moms nursing infants and feeding developing kids a vegan diet.

YMMV wrote:

Feeding a snake it's natural diet is anything but cruel.

A better example of animal cruelty is feeding obligate carnivores like cats and dogs a vegan diet, resulting in disability and disease. Slow poison similar to the child abuse of vegan moms nursing infants and feeding developing kids a vegan diet.

Mostly true although dogs have evolved a carb digesting gene.

YMMV wrote:

Feeding a snake it's natural diet is anything but cruel.

A better example of animal cruelty is feeding obligate carnivores like cats and dogs a vegan diet, resulting in disability and disease. Slow poison similar to the child abuse of vegan moms nursing infants and feeding developing kids a vegan diet.

+1

It is sickening there are sickos that feed their children, cats and dogs a vegan diet.

Saxton Pope wrote:

The hunter with the bow aims to place his shot so that the animal doesn't even know it's been hit, nor does he follow the trail for hours while the animal suffers. A well placed shot kills within a minute or so and it may take the hunter hours to follow the blood trail but the animal is dead during that period.

You've never hunted, have you?

LOL. I hunt and I can assure that animals feel it when they get hit by an arrow and it is very rare for an arrow to kill a deer in less than one minute. With a heart/lung shot they will probably collapse in less than a minute, but it still takes them a while to actually die. Hours would definitely indicate a poor shot.

I think it's easier to empathize with the animal when you consider that the snake hasn't exactly "hunted" the rabbit. The rabbit was likely thrown in whatever crate the snake is in and then gets cornered with no opportunity to escape.

Fewer people have problems with "mother nature" when both animals are on equal footing i.e. out in the wild.

animal cruelty is a retarded concept and you should feel bad for making this thread

cfight wrote:

I saw a youtube video of a kid feeding live rabbits to his snake. It took then a long time to die and the kid seemed to enjoy it. How is that not considered animal cruelty?

The natural world is cruel.

Speaking of rabbits....one of my favorite youtube videos ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEUK5sB5vE