As a small animal pet owner, I like to search how-to videos on how to properly take care of my rabbit. Amongst my search results, there are countless posts of people feeding live rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats to their reptiles, cats, and other larger predators. 

These cruel content creators are making a profit from cruelty. Live prey should not be fed to snakes, as the prey will not only suffer psychological stress while being hunted by the snake but also threaten to harm the snake by defending itself. 

Domesticated small animals like rabbits do not have the same skills and instincts as wild rabbits. Rabbits are bottom of the food chain, and these skills allow them to survive predation in the wild. Shoving a prey animal such as a guinea pig or rabbit in a small cage with a snake is cruel and inhumane. It is NOT nature!

Additionally, there are plenty of snake experts (possibly even the majority) who would argue that live feeding prey is cruel, not just to the prey animal, but to the snake itself. Live prey can and does fight back, they literally fight for their lives, and it's been pretty widely documented that snakes have been severely wounded and even killed by live prey.

These are examples and I won't be posting links to give them even more views. 

These so-called pet owners can easily feed their pets thawed out frozen mice ...etc animals who were dispatched properly. Yet YouTube continues to allow content creators to profit off of live feedings.

Do the right thing, sign and share this and let's put an end to this. If and when YouTube bans these videos, these content creators won't be so motivated to feed live animals to their pets and perpetuate the argument that it's OK. 

See what the experts say: 

https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/snakes-feeding

https://covenantwildlife.com/blog/the-consequences-of-using-live-rodents-as-reptile-food/

https://kb.rspca.org.au/knowledge-base/is-it-necessary-to-feed-my-pet-reptile-live-prey-such-as-mice/

https://vetmed.illinois.edu/pet-health-columns/pet-snakes-diet-dead-alive/

https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/pet-talk/snakes-as-pets/

Thank you NaRhea Dawn for the added input and information.