feeding cats to snakes

[Southside Morelia]

Cats definately kill for fun/sport pure instinct or whatever and not necessarily for food. I grew up living in the National Park, had dogs and cats and our cats (days before when cats roamed) used to bring in a wide range of animals. Some were massacared, some were brought in for us to admire its kill, which we didn't a swift boot up the **** was the outcome, but you could even tell when it had something by the way it cried, it was bringing it in to show us.
I would never let a cat out of the house as they are all killers...I may feed the odd one to my snakes depending on the nutritional value and obviously how it was preped...

 

[Midol]

:lol:

If you truly have a problem feeding cats/dogs as you believe its cruel, please explain how they differentiate from rats/mice besides the different levels of intelligence.

Sam.

If I were to breed like a rabbit why can't I feed my newborn to a snake? How and why do we differentiate babies from dogs? Because we are all human? No. It's our intelligence.

You can't exclude intelligence, that is the entire reason Humans are above animals. Dogs are highly intelligent.

Not to mention breeding dogs properly is NOT cheap.

 

[Midol]

how can you compare dragons geckos etc to a cat????? think wildlife not pets. reptiles are an important part of native wildlife... cats destroy local wildlife. why the hell would you do that comparison?

What? A pet gecko is an important part of native wildlife? It is contributing towards the natural eco-system?

 

[zulu]

32 a year sounds about right, not 14 a day.

yeh 14 a day every day sounds too much,but it depends where the cat is located,cats they are located near bushland have an absolute field day,i know this from life experience.Cats that our family had in suburban sydney where i grew up,caught field mice and sparrows regularly and the paddocks at lansvale offered a few baby beardys and skinks but nothing like prey to be pickked off near proper bushland.

 

[inthegrass]

in answer to the first post of this thread, i have not fed a cat to any of my snakes. having said that if the opportunity arose then i most probably would.
cheers

 

[m.punja]

I think feeding cats to snakes is just sick, same with puppies. Theyre classed as a different animal, you cannot compare rats to cats, theres no comparison. I

. If you people who agree with feeding cats and puppies to snakes is okay, then would you feed a blue tongue or a bearded dragon to your snake? Didnt think so.?!

I love the way you posted that question then said 'didn't think so' without letting us speak. You often heard about people feedin juvis skinks to get them feeding dont you? Aren't blueys a skink? If mice and rats just 'vermin' aren't the blueys and house skinks just 'skinks' or 'lizards?' As for comparing rats to cats, both got fur, both on all fours, both got tails, both can be pets and both can show effection. Eh, pretty similar to me.

 

[stringbean]

I love the way you posted that question then said 'didn't think so' without letting us speak. You often heard about people feedin juvis skinks to get them feeding dont you? Aren't blueys a skink? If mice and rats just 'vermin' aren't the blueys and house skinks just 'skinks' or 'lizards?' As for comparing rats to cats, both got fur, both on all fours, both got tails, both can be pets and both can show effection. Eh, pretty similar to me.

there both pests aswell.
some people have to job to kill feral cats in outback australia. just like some people have the jobs to kill rats in residential areas.
if u think about it there isnt much difference between rats and cats, both are pets, and pests. if u kill a pet cat for snake food, that would be wrong, if u killed a feral, or euthanised cat for snake food, whats the problem with it. people arnt saying they are goin to take your pet cat and feed it to their snakes.

 

[Stealth_Raptor]

Seriously though, cats are not really exclusive to the problems. Dogs are just as bad too, and just as many feral dogs world-wide, and a lot of people leave them to free-roam in Australia I heard. However I am not sure on the legality of it since I am not an Australian.

I don't know why urban people let their cats free-roam, yet keep their dogs on chain either, other than what the law says. I have seen some people chain their cat to the clotheline, and they don't leave the yard. I have seen dogs jump fences and climb trees via branches, so they have similar, albeit not the same, abilities as cats. Heck, in order to keep our dog within the yard, my family to make a 1 foot above-ground concrete foundation and an 8-feet fence ontop so he would not try to jump it since the dog figured out how to get out of all his collars and harnesses.

So the only real thing that can be done about the domesticated cats is to treat them the same as domesicated dogs. Feral cats and dogs are not going to go away, so there is not a whole lot people can do about it except for desexing them and removing portion off the streets and removing them from the countryside.

So what the difference between feeding a dog or a cat to a snake? No difference really, except for how people value them. Personally, I would not have a problem with using deceased cats or dogs if it doesn't cost a lot of money and time in order to do that -- or if I actually have something to feed them to. However it is not feasible to run such operation so breeder mice, rats and rabbits are better, even over the fancy varieties.

Even then... taking a pet and feeding it is wrong, even though some of us would like to do it... I know I would love to take that bloody parrot somewhere in the neighbourhood that keep annoying me at night and feed it to my dog.

 

[junglepython2]

Why would you want to feed cats anyway. Everyone knows dogs are much more nutritious

 

[Magpie]

Seriously though, rape is not the only problem, what do people have against rapists? There is also murderers, theives etc, why should we do anything about rapists?

 

[reece89]

cats well..........i hate them if i had a scrub python id happily feed a cat too it, cats are stupid animals and australia would be a better place without them.

 

[crush the turtle]

i like ur attuide reece89,

 

[Hetty]

Seriously though, rape is not the only problem, what do people have against rapists? There is also murderers, theives etc, why should we do anything about rapists?

And now for something completely random...

 

[crush the turtle]

because rapists started with cats dammit!!.................dam cats

 

[Hetty]

because rapists started with cats dammit!!.................dam cats

Actually, I thinks Magpie was just using a metaphor... but still....

PANTS!

 

[Midol]

there both pests aswell.
some people have to job to kill feral cats in outback australia. just like some people have the jobs to kill rats in residential areas.
if u think about it there isnt much difference between rats and cats, both are pets, and pests. if u kill a pet cat for snake food, that would be wrong, if u killed a feral, or euthanised cat for snake food, whats the problem with it. people arnt saying they are goin to take your pet cat and feed it to their snakes.

Intelligence is what sets animals apart.

 

[stringbean]

cats well..........i hate them if i had a scrub python id happily feed a cat too it, cats are stupid animals and australia would be a better place without them.

haha to true
especialy the " Australia would be better of with out them", that is exactly my point of view aswell, the least people could do is to have them desexed so they can't breed when there wandering around neighbour hoods at night.

 

[Rennie]

we no u all will feed a cat to a snake
would any1 feed a puppy to me they are on par with each other

I guess, if it was feral, I could humanely dispose of it and I had a snake big enough to eat it why not? Its just another piece of meat.

Is a puppy any cuter than the lizards, bilbys, koalas, possums, wallabys, etc. that they eat in the wild?

 

[spilota_variegata]

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[nuthn2do]

Intelligence is what sets animals apart.

You are not putting yourself very high up in the food chain