I’ve stumbled across videos on YouTube that show snake owners feeding them a live rate or rabbit or whatever. Some people in the comments say well that’s just nature, others say it’s animal abuse. What do you think?
On reddit I saw a snake owner saying what they normally do is kill the prey beforehand with a CO2 chamber and freeze it, and that there’s no reason to feed live. Like the snakes don’t need it. If that’s true I guess it’s needless suffering then. Weird that these videos are so available on YouTube then.
I used to keep a lot of spiders and they will only eat live prey, so I’d say no. However if pre-killing was an option, I’d use it.
Also: Don’t use mammals as spider food. It’s a total mess and not very nice to clean up. I tried it once but stuck to crickets after that.
Are there spiders that eat mammals??
The larger tarantulas can eat small rodents or birds.