Who'da Thunk?

[jitami]

Great job Gertie I know it wasn't easy...

[reptile3]

I would be tired from all that too! I on the other hand... don't mind live pinkie, i had to give to my ball python a few times. The first time my Ball didn't want the pinkie, I couldn't throw it away, I fed it to my bearded dragon, who enjoyed that meal!

I know the pinkies look so cute, sweet, & look what we are doing. But our pets have to eat!

big hugs Gertie

[crzy_kevo]

well im glad you got your love fed mk and ya hopefully for your sake you dont have to do that again

[Hornets23]

I know how you feel gertie...I didnt want to give the snakes live one either. I can do frozen. I have some pet mice too. They are pretty adorable. Nice job getting past the hurdle.

[infernalis]

It is rather odd, I enjoy my mouse colonies. Every litter makes me smile.

I have to approach it the same way a farmer does his livestock, It's great to love "Sir Loin" and pat him on the nose. AND it's also great to have Sirloin done medium rare on a hardwood fire

[Lori P]

Gertie, well done!!! It is pretty amazing how we learn to move forward... my first time feeding a live pinky I bawled my head off (and shared it with everyone here!!!) You did good... snakey has to eat, after all.

Wayne, I am soooo with you! First time I raised a piggy "for the freezer" it was sooooooo hard... I backed down a dozen times from sending him up the road... and then finally just did it. And let me tell you, those chops were the best I'd ever tasted!!! Now I can love on them, spoil them, let them run around here and have a good life... and still look forward to those chops!!! LOL It's amazing how we can rationalize...

[Garter_Gertie]

Wanye, that's what I kept telling myself at TCR (Twin Cities Reptiles). I did the "I eat cows and they're raised to feed ME, and this is no different; this mouselette was bred just for fodd, blah, blah, blah."

Again, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

I think it's really a matter of me being the one to end the life. I can logically talk to myself on end, but...

Gotta tell ya! LOL!!! When Kenabec first went off feed I asked the owner of TCR and the breeder if I could just bring him in in his deli cup and have them "do it." No way would they let me, Kenabec had to be comfy, he had to feel secure, ad nausem.

I want a hobby farm. Yup. Lori, I'd decided long ago piggies would NOT be one of the animals I rasied as I couldn't eat a pet! LOL!!!

Thanks Kevie, Christa, Three and Tami. I do hope NEXT time Niizh will jump on a f/t as I don't want to have to go through that again. I totally am not adverse to feeding live and can understand there are some creatures that will never go over to f/t. I understand, I accept it. I do not feel it is wrong.

I just don't want to do it or have to see it!

But things do get easier - it's like going off the high dive for the first time... If push would come to shove, for Kenabec's sake, I'd do it again. I think. LOL!

[infernalis]

The first time I ever had to bonk an adult mouse, the poor animal suffered, I didn't really hit hard enough.

Hate to sound brutal, but I got it down now where the mouse never even feels a thing.

[reptile3]

The first time I ever had to bonk an adult mouse, the poor animal suffered, I didn't really hit hard enough.

Hate to sound brutal, but I got it down now where the mouse never even feels a thing.

How do you know it doesn't feel a thing?? Did it tell you that? just messing with you.
Wayne your awesome... the way you do things.

[Garter_Gertie]

Dekay, damn you! I could have gone the rest of my life NOT reading that!

It's not brutal, but why spill that? Knowing how I feel.

I love you, but you are one big BOOGER!

The first time I ever had to bonk an adult mouse, the poor animal suffered, I didn't really hit hard enough.

Hate to sound brutal, but I got it down now where the mouse never even feels a thing.