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YouTube clip featuring cruelty to reptiles

Stock350, you summed it up (at least from my perspective). It's not the live food, it's the fact that this individual is feeding his iguana something that could potentially kill it just to catch it on film for the "shock factor."
 
It bothers me because the food was totally inappropriate for the animal - animal protein will kill iguanas due to kidney failure - and because it was deliberately cruel to the feeder anole.
 
Susan said:
Not to completely sanction what he did, but how is the tease feeding of a live anole to an iguana any different from our tease feeding a live pinky or anole to a cornsnake?
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Because iguanas are herbivores and feeding animal protein on a regular basis can drastically shorten their lives?
 
Susan said:
Not to completely sanction what he did, but how is the tease feeding of a live anole to an iguana any different from our tease feeding a live pinky or anole to a cornsnake?
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Susan,
Lets put this in another perspective. What if it was a kitten being fed to a pit bull would you find that offensive? or how about a puppy to Mastiff?
What i find offensive was the cruel delight this kid took out of this. I may be jumping the shark on this but many who murder or who abuse women and children start off by doing this to animals. This is behavior that is not from a normal well adjusted adult or teenager.
Yes, we all own snakes here and sometimes must do live feeds. I never relish giving a live animal to my snakes for food but I realize they need to eat. But in this footage of this iguana eating a lizard was just wrong and cruel and he knew this. He seemed to enjoy the cruelty of that act and got off on that. Much like someone training pit bulls to kill kittens to make them mean.
 
I know nothing of what an Iguana should or should not be eating. I understand young boys and wanting to be all cool like this one wanted to be in front of his buddies, but being that I feed my animals live foods as well...

And even so, if I had anything larger than a corn snake, I would be looking to feed my snakes anything that it could handle. Rabbits, birds, I mean, whatever. :flames:

But I do see the point of feeding the animal the wrong kind of food. But since I have Corn snakes, I dont have to worry about feeding my baby anything but mice! :)

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Animal proteins in large amounts are not good, but nobody watching this video has any idea how much animal protein this iguana gets. The anole looked like and was most likely a cuban anole, I have no love for them. I will capture and kill them when I see them. However, I would not feed a live one to anything, at the very least I would freeze it for a week, to make sure all external and internal parasites were dead.
 
Susan said:
Not to completely sanction what he did, but how is the tease feeding of a live anole to an iguana any different from our tease feeding a live pinky or anole to a cornsnake?
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It's more directly comparable to tease-feeding a baby carrot to a corn snake.

Totally and completely inappropriate food for the animal.
 
It has been over 10 years since I owned an iguana and was not aware of the change in acceptability of a small amount of animal protein in their diet. And I'll bet the owner of the iguana in question isn't aware of it either.

As for the "cruelty" of the act...I'll stand by my original statement. I prefer to feed dead prey, but will feed live if I have to. Animals killing and eating other animals occurs every day. It is a part of nature. I may take "offense" to the feeding of a kitten to a pittbull ONLY because my society as a whole is SUPPOSED to be offended at it. If the feline was not kept as a pet in our society, but was instead kept as a food source, I would not be offended. It would then be the same as feeding a sirloin steak to a pittbull. Now in India...THAT would be offensive as the cow is sacred.

"To each his own.", said the farmer as he kissed the pig.
 
Susan said:
It has been over 10 years since I owned an iguana and was not aware of the change in acceptability of a small amount of animal protein in their diet. And I'll bet the owner of the iguana in question isn't aware of it either.

As for the "cruelty" of the act...I'll stand by my original statement. I prefer to feed dead prey, but will feed live if I have to. Animals killing and eating other animals occurs every day. It is a part of nature. I may take "offense" to the feeding of a kitten to a pittbull ONLY because my society as a whole is SUPPOSED to be offended at it. If the feline was not kept as a pet in our society, but was instead kept as a food source, I would not be offended. It would then be the same as feeding a sirloin steak to a pittbull. Now in India...THAT would be offensive as the cow is sacred.

"To each his own.", said the farmer as he kissed the pig.
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Oh, I am not upset at the fact that the animal ate live food. That does not bother me. If this was a Tegu needing to be fed a live anole for what ever reason, I am fine with that. I am upset at the delight he took from the cruelity of the act. I find that offensive and I am pretty sure that is in every culture. What that boy did was totured the animal before allowing the Iguana to eat it. This would be considered animal cruelity.
 
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