Stephanie Feliciano

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  Stephanie signed the petition | about 2 years ago

  President Obama, You And Your Family Should Stop Eating Animal Flesh
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  Stephanie commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Man Charged for Strangling Rat

  Michelle, there are quite a few things wrong with keeping snakes as pets, significantly, they are wild animals that shouldn't be kept in captivity. There's no reason to keep one, they don't provide the same companionship as many other animals, and thats not an opinion, that is a fact based on their brain structure. They are not capable of love and joy. (again, this is a fact) Secondly, you are keeping a wild animal at the sacrifice of and horrendous pain and suffering for animals that DO feel joy and love. (which is a proven fact) Thirdly, cats and dogs can be fed on a vegan diet healthfully, I don't think/know if a snake would be able to. Not to mention that cats and dogs are actually domesticated and cannot be released back into the wild. And please don't try to bullshit me that pet snakes can't survive in the wild. I live in florida, peoples "unreleasable unable to survive animals" live in my backyard and thrive.

  
  

  Pet snakes cause undue suffering and have no business being in ones tank. Them eating domesticated rats and mice is NOT nature. There is nothing natural about breeding animals to depend on and trust humans being put into a glass box with a wild animal.

  
  

  To answer your second question, in florida it is stated that undue cruelty to animals is prohibited UNLESS (and oh, yes, there is an unless) its for scientific/medical purposes.