Is this fair???

[Zbiz]

Ok this is a video on Youtube of a bearded dragon eating a humming bird, i dont suggest you watch it if you are a humming bird lover... just wondering what others think about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPFx4T9mKU

 

[Lyndsey]

Not cool...those guys are so immature and just plain stupid


Wouldn't the beak stab the beardie's insides??

 

[Zbiz]

Exactly wat i was thinking... humming bird beaks are quite sharp... almost like needles, i wonder if the dragon had any issues

 

[Lyndsey]

Exactly wat i was thinking... humming bird beaks are quite sharp... almost like needles, i wonder if the dragon had any issues

Well, I hope it wasn't hurt because its owner wanted 45 seconds of entertainment for his friends

 

[moosassah]

I'll pass on watching, but man, YouTube is the new home of Stupid people!!! I love the stories you read about ones who get jail time for stuff they post.

 

[Zbiz]

the big thing is they saying it was injured yet it was flying around, the one guy on the video was like, "dude it can still fly". Also the humming bird could be carrying parasites and diseases... i really hope that beardy was ok

 

[PaulSage]

Is this fair???

No.

 

[Grinning Geckos]

If you notice, they cut off the beak before tossing it in there. That's why they said it was bleeding. There is not 1 reason they should have done that.

 

[Zbiz]

OMG your right!!! wat a bunch of $@#%s

 

[Scott&Nikki]

If you notice, they cut off the beak before tossing it in there. That's why they said it was bleeding.

They do the same to chickens we (we meaning humans) eat. What this guy did is honestly no more than what everyone around the world supports. It is just for our "benefit" so no one cares. I think they are both wrong, which is why I don't eat meat... or feed birds to my lizard...

 

[Ian S.]

As soon as I see a beardie chomping on a humming bird in Australia, I'll say the video's ok. How stoned were they?

 

[Gregg M]

Whats wrong with a varied diet??? LOL Honestly It is not something I would do for obvious reasons but a prey item is a prey item... A cricket, a bird, a mouse, or a rabbit, in the big picture of life, they are all food for something... What is the difference between getting a humming bird or a mouse for your lizard or snake to eat???

On a personal note, I eat lots of meat and I love it...

 

[Grinning Geckos]

Same here Gregg. Mmmmmm meat.

I can think of several reason to not do what they did, and I can only see one reason that they did do it - entertainment. I feed rats to my BP, and have fed pinky mice to my leos ... but I've never stood around giggling and clapping my hands while it was going on. I usually feel a bit bad for what's being eaten, even though I'm facinated by the process (BP in particular). I can't imagine being crunched alive is a great way to go.

 

[Ian S.]

but... I like humming birds damn it!:wacky:

 

[Jayyoung]

Whats wrong with a varied diet??? LOL Honestly It is not something I would do for obvious reasons but a prey item is a prey item... A cricket, a bird, a mouse, or a rabbit, in the big picture of life, they are all food for something... What is the difference between getting a humming bird or a mouse for your lizard or snake to eat???

On a personal note, I eat lots of meat and I love it...

Agreed!

We are a strange animal...

Most of us wouldn't eat a pet. But the pet would eat you.

 

[BG-Gecko]

quite the same as the video i saw on youtube, someone who fed some geckos to a Basiliscus basiliscus

horrible....

 

[thaveteran]

People get out of hand with this. The fact is if you threw the animal in its cage and it ate it then most likely if it ran across that same animal in the wild and it was hungry it would eat it. It's the food chain people, bigger animals eat smaller animals. Humans get attached to particular animals because we domesticate them and make them pets but truth be told they are really just another animal on the food chain.

If you were lost in the wilderness and hadn't eaten for days and a rabbit, deer, hell if it got down to it a gecko crossed your path would you say no thanks I'll wait on that cow? C'mon I admit this stuff is hard to stomach and thats why I wouldn't do it but I don't really find it inhumane.

 

[Sandra]

The video has been removed, but well, I get the idea by the replies on this thread... I don't think anybody here has anything against an animal eating another, that's just natural and not what we are discusing here.

There's a lot of cheap and convenient alternatives to catching a wild bird, breaking its beck and throwing it into a tank for a varied diet. I can only think that they do it driven by some kind of morbid curiosity. They didn't think at all about the predator (the beardy could catch something from eating a wild animal, or could have been hurt by the bird) or the prey's wellbeing (that should have been sacrificed before being offered, instead of tortured and frightened to death).

I'm more outraged at their methods and purposes, that the fact itself.