feeding live pinkys??

[drache]

additionally
with snakes eating rather infrequently, that moment of fun has to go a long way
with the lion . . . well, how much running does he get to do after the zebra? it just doesn't seem that much fun if that damn zebra is trapped to begin with and you can't do that whole strategic hunting thing with your pride and all that
but I do think that if you're keeping your snakes in a rack system, truly, that moment of fun when they get to look eye to eye with that rat and go "it's you or me, baby" and "let's get that sucker quick, before he bites me" - if that's the only fun they ever get, then you should most definitely feed your snake live rodents
I am not one of those unreasonable folk who believe you should deprive your poor captives of their once a week chance to have some fun and a nice adrenalin rush

[snakeman]

First of all snakes don't have fun they don't have anything.They are emotionless creatures.Big cats do have fun.You can look at the cat you may have around your house.Give him a live mouse to play with.Trust me he is going to have fun once he subdues it.I don't feed my snakes live.I was talking about cats.If you don't think cats have fun killing their prey YOU are delusional.Who cares if someone feeds live or dead.

[Stefan-A]

Well, the best thing to do here is still to avoid anthropomorphising animals and just stick to what we actually know. That goes for snakes, big and small cats, mice and zebras.

[snakeman]

I'm going to find me a live cow and eat it!

[drache]

did anyone here see "Man on Wire"?
this guy's idea of fun was walking on a wire between the WTC towers
fun is a human concept and we can't even always with certainty tell whether another human is having fun or not
when we assume we know what animals are experiencing and that it looks like what we are experiencing, we are likely to be even more off the mark, even if it is another mammal - what looks like play to you, may be serious business to them or just something they do

[brain]

I was talking about cats. If you don't think cats have fun killing their prey YOU are delusional. Who cares if someone feeds live or dead.

I can send videos of this fun time to watch.

We have four cats two in and two out. We got Bodgee and Shashe, the outside cats, as three week old kittens and taught them how to hunt by using live mice and now (two yrs old) they keep the rat and gophers in check around here.

Bodgee will eat anything so will Shashe only she like to play with it first … too funny to watch.

[drache]

did you know that "playing" with the food (if it's alive that is) alters it's chemistry and flavour?
and yes, it's heaps of fun to watch
if I could experience my body this way, I'm pretty sure that would be very cool fun for me, and in a way I do and it is when I'm watching
looking forward to your vids, but I have cats of my own, and I still cannot tell whether they are experiencing what I think of as fun, when I'm having fun experiencing their hunting behaviors

[palmeb]

Thats a totaly different topic I have had snakes for years and all of my snake have eaten live prey its more natural and garter snake eat helpless prey

[d_virginiana]

I think you found a long-dead thread here