Shannon's Snakes Photo Thread

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

poor cuppycake

[ssssnakeluvr]

poor cuppycake

cuppycake is in good hands now!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

cuppycake is in good hands now!!

I know, but i still feel sorry for her plight!

[Lori P]

Not to go off on a tangent but I feel very strongly about this...Do I support mutilating an animal for sheer convenience, vanity and safety? no. I think it is wrong for us to cut off any part of an animal that we don't like, that goes for declawing cats, cropping dogs' tails and ears, even dew claws, who are we to say that they are imperfect? I find any of these commonly performed procedures disgusting, selfish, and backward. Every time I see someone walk into my store with a dog with cropped ears and tail, or is looking for litter for their declawed cat, I just want to cut off one of their toes, chop off their buttocks, reshape their ears with scissors and rip out their fingernails and see how they like it. I watched a littelr of day old poodles have their tails and dew claws cut off, with NOTHING to sedate them, they just take scissors and chop them off while the puppy screams in pain. Just because they won't remember it when they are older does not make it okay..

Shannon, I luv you!!

[jitami]

And I have tremendous respect for you

(but will likely have a cropped doggy again... done right there's no pain during the procedure and minimal pain/discomfort during healing, less than a spay or neuter surgery which is also done for convenience of man...ok, I'll be quiet now)

Love ya both! And with Anesthesia I'd be happy to have some of my own body parts cut off! Don't know if I'd trust Shannon to do it, though LOL

[mtolypetsupply]

Not to go off on a tangent but I feel very strongly about this...Do I support mutilating an animal for sheer convenience, vanity and safety? no. I think it is wrong for us to cut off any part of an animal that we don't like, that goes for declawing cats, cropping dogs' tails and ears, even dew claws, who are we to say that they are imperfect? I find any of these commonly performed procedures disgusting, selfish, and backward. Every time I see someone walk into my store with a dog with cropped ears and tail, or is looking for litter for their declawed cat, I just want to cut off one of their toes, chop off their buttocks, reshape their ears with scissors and rip out their fingernails and see how they like it. I watched a littelr of day old poodles have their tails and dew claws cut off, with NOTHING to sedate them, they just take scissors and chop them off while the puppy screams in pain. Just because they won't remember it when they are older does not make it okay.

You mean like we circumcise little boys in the hospital strapped down to a table with not even a topical, solely because it's supposedly "cleaner"????? Or at a briss, not even done by a doctor, no anesthetic either, for religious reasons?

We are a cruel species, aren't we??? Most living things only cause pain so they don't starve to death.

[jitami]

You mean like we circumcise little boys in the hospital strapped down to a table with not even a topical, solely because it's supposedly "cleaner"?????

One of my boys was done just like that by my gynecologist, hubby stayed in the room with my son and was appalled. I could hear my son crying from down the hall... even though they had placed me in a private room as far away as possible. My second son was done by our pediatrician with a local anesthetic, cradled in the arms of a nurse, and did not even whimper. When done appropriately, with anesthesia, I'm ok with many procedures, but can certainly understand why others choose to believe differently. I'd say neither boy has suffered any long term effects either way, but still...

[snakeman]

Yes we are.Keeping wild animals in cages forcing them to produce mutant offspring!

[mtolypetsupply]

Yes we are.Keeping wild animals in cages forcing them to produce mutant offspring!

LOLOL!!!! All in the name of "color morphs"! Forced breeding, eating unnatural diets, not to mention the species we keep and force to do tricks!!! We are rotten! Rotten to the core!!!!

[deborahbroadus]

The Puget is totally beautiful. I am partial to blue.