Just for kicks, here's the email address of the person who is sponsoring the petition, Molly Smith,
molly_nicole_16@yahoo.com
It's really enlightening to see the skewed opinions of many people out there. I just find it impossible to understand their method of reasoning. It is often repeated in the comments of the petition that snakes shouldn't be kept as pets while many who make that comment have caged rodents.
They speak of how inhumane it is that a live mouse be fed to a snake, but generally disregard the fact that that's exactly what happens everyday in the wild. What requires captivity to be different?
While most snakes will indeed eat thawed prey many simply won't. I have several ball pythons that would starve to death if I refused to let them have live prey.
Regardless we're all preaching to the choir here. We'll never understand their way of thinking. We look at the natural food chain as normal, while they view it as something that should only apply in the wild.
Just for laughs though here's a few of the better comments made on the petition for those who didn't want to take the time to browse them. Many just display their complete ignorance of anything regarding snakes.
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We are Hippocrates!!
Phyllis Pickett, Garden City, Kansas
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For those who didn't get the typo, Hippocrates was the greek physician from who we get the Hippocratic Oath
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Rodents are animals too, and snakes can eat other food.
Jessica Zapadka, Pennsylvania
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Thank you for that brilliant revelation Jessica. Too bad you didn't mention what those other foods are because we poor snake owners just can't seem to figure it out.
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Rats are pets, not food.
Nikki Stonerr, Chaska, Minnesota
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I think Nikki has watched Finding Nemo one to many times.
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I do not know what snakes eat, but people should try to find food for snakes that is from nonliving things.
Anonymous, Massachusetts
Personnally they need to find non animal substitutes for feeding snakes--they have vegecat for cats now that cats can be vegetarian-we need cruelty free food for snakes
Anonymous
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I keep offering my boas cucumbers, but they just aren't getting it. Maybe yellow squash is the way to go.
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Adhere to the teachings of Jesus, as contained in The Urantia Book, or else suffer the consequences.
Lawrence Smith, BA Saint Simons Island, GA
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I had to look it up to see. This is from the Urantia Foundation website:
"The Urantia Book, first published by the Urantia Foundation in 1955, was authored by celestial beings as a special revelation to our planet, Urantia."
Enough said there
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Just put some ground beef on a string, snakes are too dumb to know the difference!!
Kelly K. Skokie, Illinois
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Pot....kettle...... you get the idea. I'd feel safe wagering I've had snakes with more intelligence than Kelly here.
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I only buy ones that have been killed in a humane way by people who know what they're doing.
Nathan Smith, Australia
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Yeah, too bad you apparently need special training to kill a mouse. In essence he's just saying he doesn't know enough to kill a rodent.
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Ok, all you Snake Owners. This is your last warning.. The National Alliance of Rat Owners demand you stop feeding Rats and Mice to your pet Phythons.
Stephen Deavers Hesperia, California
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Or.........what?
Haha, at least these nutcases are good for a laugh if nothing else. I bet they'd just love my rodent building, the room of doom, haha.