• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Pinkies are a thing for feeding snakes already. Basically baby hamsters. These snakes must have been massive if they needed puppies.

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      7 months ago

      So hamsters are okay, but puppies aren’t? As @Fosheze alluded to, it has to do more with the culture that you were raised in than it has to do with any universal standard of morality.

      A quick Google search reveals that snakes can eat prey that is the diameter of the widest part of the snake. Some snakes, such as large constrictors, can and will eat a dog. Snakes are carnivores and need to eat a varied diet of prey, so it comes as no surprise that a dog could be a valid option.

      Of course, as with everything, it gets more complicated than that. For instance, intent, food viability, local laws and regulations, how the prey was prepared, etc.

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        7 months ago

        I’m with you bud don’t worry, I don’t have issues with puppy’s being used. I’m a rodent lover and I had 10 hamster up until earlier this year when they all started passing away from old age and I understand it’s the cycle of life and snakes have to eat too. I have no problem with any of this as long as it wasn’t done overly gruesome for the animals being eaten. It’s the cycle of life, we’re part of it too.