Littlefishy, Elli already gave them to sbdy else about 2 weeks ago or so I hope Bubbles and Spaz will do well as they are so lovely and cute fishies

feeders???
what do you mean by that

omg that is not good
are they crazy goldfish as fish food so evil 

Well, other bigger fish and reptiles have to eat too and if you think of it live food is a great nutritious food as well.
I know my sister has frogs and they eat live crickets.  Her big red earred slider turtle eats small fish.
Unless you are vegetarian totally, you eat meat as well which involves killing animals for food.

It's not wrong. It's how it is either way, no matter if the snake gets the mouse from your hand or not, in the wild at least ONE mouse would get killed for that very same meal anyway. So it's not cruel, and not unnatural d: It's food.

Heh so am I Andrea lol.
Animals do eat animals and that is natural, but if its not necessary to feed an animal live food and they can do well without it then I don't see the point

I dunno if every coin does Hanna Haha but this one has multiple

I don't see what the difference is to feed live foods to your pets or dead ones???
Ever think how the dead ones became dead?  It's not like they found them that way.  There are big companies making big money providing people with already dead live food!
I agree if you don't want to give your exotic pet the live food then you probably shouldn't own one.
I think giving live foods like to a snake in an aquarium for example is better.
The snake uses his natural instincts to hunt and find his prey and it has to provide him some exercise as well as stimulation to his senses.  Otherwise he just sits in his cage which to me is very sad.
Well maybe I shouldn't own a pond either.  It's a natural death attractant to bugs.  Geee all the bugs my fish have killed this summer.   

I don’t think there is any reasoning to be sarcastic and patronising about some people’s beliefs as I think we all know that they just don’t find the animals dead. I also believe there is a difference. I like to believe and I know it isn’t always true but sometimes it is that animals that are killed for meat are killed humanely. Do you think a goldfish being eating alive by piranhas (which I have seen on youtube) is humane??? Do you not think there is a more humane way to kill this food in order for this other animals to survive? I know it is extremely difficult to kill seafood humanely but I think you should at least try. Like in Australia it is the law that you must freeze these ocean/river fish before killing it as it numbs them.

But with your snake argument, I somewhat agree. However, my friend has a pet snake and he gives it dead rats (which have probably been killed humanely as that is the law here!) and it acts in the same way when attacking  and eating this rat as snakes do in the wild when capturing their prey. So I don’t see why not? Why torture the rat when you don’t have to?

Natural they key word.

Andrea: There are many humane ways to kill fish. It involves their spinal cord for instance, which is a very useful method when feeding them to something, you simply cut it off. Use a sharp knife right behind the head of the fish. Or like you said, freezing them.

But I would really, no matter what pet I'd have, refrain from buying any living food, because I simply wouldn't want to have any lives hanging around my conscience. Even if it'd be the life of a snail :c (Not aquatic snails though, they're cute, but a real pain to get rid of once you have them)

Abbiesaurus: Very interesting article with good points! This would remove the main reason I found "useful" with living animals for food. And in other words, I'm pretty much against it. Except when it comes to feeding brine shrimp nauplii to fish fry.