Ok... I understand the food chain, too. Big eats little. I see where you're coming from but I have a different view on domesticated reptiles.
There's a very big difference between a pet snake and a wild snake. The same as wild dogs and domesticated dogs. When an animal is domesticated it's under the care of a human, the human makes the decision on what the snake eats. Although the rodent is dead, if a domesticated snake has only been fed pre-killed rodents then that's "normal" to it. If it doesn't eat it straight away then it can be encouraged to do so through a number of methods - teasing it by making the dead rodent move with a pair of tongs, if this doesn't work then "attacking" the snake with the dead rodent so it thinks it's being struck, encouraging the smell of the rodent by slicing it...
In the wild it's free for all, but a pet snake is different. |