I’ve stumbled across videos on YouTube that show snake owners feeding them a live rate or rabbit or whatever. Some people in the comments say well that’s just nature, others say it’s animal abuse. What do you think?
On reddit I saw a snake owner saying what they normally do is kill the prey beforehand with a CO2 chamber and freeze it, and that there’s no reason to feed live. Like the snakes don’t need it. If that’s true I guess it’s needless suffering then. Weird that these videos are so available on YouTube then.
CO2 poisoning does not look peaceful to outsiders
Yeah, I worked in a biology lab that regrettably used co2 for euthanizing mice. They would struggle, and begin to thrash uncontrollably as they ran out of oxygen, then they would slow down until they are just barely twitching before all movement completely ceases. It’s a disgusting way to die.