Lefties like to call our PM "the rodent, " as if that is an insult. But really, have a look at this video of an endearing rat:
One disturbing thing I have noticed while looking around Youtube rodent related videos are some showing snakes being fed live mice or rats. There is even an extremely gross video of a giant ugly pet frog eating live mice. (I am no fan of frogs at the best of times.) I will not link to it.
I really wonder about people who keep snakes and such like that (apparently) need to be fed live animals. You can't tell me that a snake, lizard or frog can respond to their human keepers in the way even a rat can, so I suppose they are kept mainly due to some sort of appreciation of their looks, or more likely, just for novelty value. But when such a pet involves the owner regularly feeding them other live animals, it just seems that it must involve some desensitising to cruelty.
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I reckon Rudd looks more and more rat like as the days roll by, no offense to rats.
Did you read about Florida's serious problem with large exotic snakes eating up the natives? (In New York Times) Seems that people buy their adorable snakes then it all gets a bit much when they start taking up the whole lounge room and need ever more and bigger live tucker, so they set them free, as it were.
You're right too, there is definitely something creepy about people feeding live animals to "pet" snakes.
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