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April 24, 2007
I wonder if PETA peeps would implode ...
Poasted by gekko at 12:11 PM and filed under 
"Politik Inkorrecta"
I went to a zoo recently. I'm not talking about misc.writing. I mean an actual zoo with animals in habitats and you walk around eating slushies and gaping at the critters. There were children there, and I had to war with my innate enjoyment of some types of children and my irritation with, well, most children. At one point I attempted to convince a 10 year old boy that it would be "like, really cool to see the inside of a boa constrictor ... just hop in, dude!" but his parents scooted him away from me. That, of course, was kinda the end result I was hoping to attain so there was a happy ending for all.
But I wonder how PETA peeps would react to this new item.
A Glendale man is facing up to a year in prison in an animal cruelty case in which a 3-week-old puppy was soaked in cooking oil and fed to an 8-foot-long pet boa constrictor snake.
Two fifteen year old boys watched and described how the snake bit the pup, then started to squeeze it and they could hear the bones breaking. Then the man, 40-year-old Joseph E. Beadle, took the pup, soaked it in oil to help it slide down the snake easier, and gave it back to the snake.
He plead guilty. The snake was also found to be suffering from neglect, as they measured it and found it a few inches shorter than it should have been had it been properly nourished.
I don't get ooged out by the thought of rodents suffering that same fate. I don't care about live worms becoming food for fish. But puppies? They're cute. They'll grow up to be dogs and I enjoy the human-dog bond in my life too keenly to ever conceive of a dog as being prey. I am appalled that a human, supposedly charged with caring for canine partners, would use a dog to feed his snake and entertain a couple of kids at the same time.
However.
Would the nature documentary aspect of snake-eats-sizable-prey make the PETA nuts happy while simultaneously causing them to writhe in agony about the animals being kept and neglected and abused in the first place?
That might be, well, rilly cool, dude.
Tagz: Animals, PC, Puppies, Stupidity
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Would a cat be okay? Or a ferret? How about a guinea pig? Hamster? or is it just rats and mice that are fair game for a boa?
I think PETA has an out considering that a boa's typical prey in the wild is not likely to be puppies.
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Some animals' rights peeps won't be happy until tigers are eating tofu, but be that as it may, I HATE this guy for doing that to a puppy, do not CARE if the damn snake needs to eat, and wish someone would soak HIM in oil and feed him to a shark.