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Originally Posted by Dee Dee
I'm sooo with u cassie. My corn is still young & so she's eating pinkys right now & everytime I take 1 out of the freezer 2 defrost I kinda look @ it's lil nose & lil tail & think 'aw! I'm so sorry lil pinky mouse'. I, like u, wud hav a real problem feeding live mice. It's probably partly because I actually had pet mice a few yrs back. I hav 2 tell myself th@ I eat meat & so does my snake so feeding her is no different than feeding myself. End of the day I want popcorn 2 b happy & healthy & vegetarianism is not an option so feeding her mice is just a fact of life. Oddly I find it fascinating 2 watch her eat tho :-/ lol. Yeah I'm a bit weird aren't I?! Lol :-p
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! Honestly, though, they're dying a lot painlessly than any of the meat I eat. CO2 is supposed to put you into a painless sleep by inhabiting all of your hemoglobin, but I have a professor who told me that it's horrible and they "pop around like popcorn" (I guess he used them for some research, and all research animals must be destroyed) I refuse to believe him, though, because he has a sadistic sense of humor and enjoys teasing me a little too much.
I've told myself I should get a pet mouse to make up for the fact that I'm indirectly causing their death, but my boyfriend has cut me off with pets. he says we can't have anything more than a dog, cat, and snake in our apartment. He won't even let me foster momma kitties for the SPCA