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While I understand what you are saying over here there is no such thing as a "Feeder Animal", it would be totally against the law to breed animals just to feed to other animals because where would you draw the line on what is and isn't an "acceptable" live food versus pet? can I feed a live cat to a dog just because it is nature that dogs eat cats? put it this way young tegu are pray in their own habitat but if I owned an animal that was a natural predator of tegu would it be acceptable for me to buy live young tegu just to feed it?

I realise that humans breed cattle and chickens as food but the reason we justify it is we disassociate from the animal and view Chickens, Cows, Sheep etc as stupid and that makes it easier then to digest (no pun intended) as a reason but if hotdogs where really made out of minced up dogs would you eat them?

"that's nature" as a concept is very subjective based on what you find acceptable which is why you never see a zoo feeding a tiger a live monkey

<blockquote data-quote="MadameButterfly" data-source="post: 106488" data-attributes="member: 3100">While I understand what you are saying over here there is no such thing as a &quot;Feeder Animal&quot;, it would be totally against the law to breed animals just to feed to other animals because where would you draw the line on what is and isn't an &quot;acceptable&quot; live food versus pet? can I feed a live cat to a dog just because it is nature that dogs eat cats? put it this way young tegu are pray in their own habitat but if I owned an animal that was a natural predator of tegu would it be acceptable for me to buy live young tegu just to feed it? I realise that humans breed cattle and chickens as food but the reason we justify it is we disassociate from the animal and view Chickens, Cows, Sheep etc as stupid and that makes it easier then to digest (no pun intended) as a reason but if hotdogs where really made out of minced up dogs would you eat them?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;that's nature&quot; as a concept is very subjective based on what you find acceptable which is why you never see a zoo feeding a tiger a live monkey</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MadameButterfly, post: 106488, member: 3100"] While I understand what you are saying over here there is no such thing as a "Feeder Animal", it would be totally against the law to breed animals just to feed to other animals because where would you draw the line on what is and isn't an "acceptable" live food versus pet? can I feed a live cat to a dog just because it is nature that dogs eat cats? put it this way young tegu are pray in their own habitat but if I owned an animal that was a natural predator of tegu would it be acceptable for me to buy live young tegu just to feed it? I realise that humans breed cattle and chickens as food but the reason we justify it is we disassociate from the animal and view Chickens, Cows, Sheep etc as stupid and that makes it easier then to digest (no pun intended) as a reason but if hotdogs where really made out of minced up dogs would you eat them? "that's nature" as a concept is very subjective based on what you find acceptable which is why you never see a zoo feeding a tiger a live monkey [/QUOTE]

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