Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "Hundreds of small animals were to be adopted out, but may have been frozen for reptile food" video.

@Vic-of8pd Thank you for responding with as much intelligence and maturity as I expected.
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Exactly. Every person who is mad about this is focused on the wrong end of the pipeline. All the shelters are full, with more pouring in every day. Would they rather these rodents feed animals that have owners who care for them, or just be put down and buried? Maybe they'd prefer all the new animals be turned away, so they can be released in the wild and add to the destruction of local ecosystems.
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@watsonspuzzle So what?
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@authorRisenfromash Please. You expect me to believe they let this guy take more than 300 rodents without knowing who he was? They make you show proof of permission from your landlord before you can have one. They knew damn well who he was and what he was doing. He helps them solve the overcrowding issue. The REAL issue is the more than 300 people who took in pets, only to abandon them when they became inconvenient. If it weren't for the sea of people dumping off their pets at shelters, there wouldn't be a problem to solve.
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@harleyquinn5774 When you wash your hands of animals, you give up the right to dictate anything. There are too damned many animals in the shelters - to the point where now even the shelters are abandoning them, just like their owners. These rodents weren't going to have some wonderful life. They died a little sooner than natural but at least they fed animals that actually are being cared for by responsible pet owners. There's no tragedy here. It's animals eating animals that nobody wanted as pets...just like every other day of the year.
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Why?
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What are you talking about? An animal that is gassed and then frozen for food is killed much more humanely than one that's fed off to a snake alive. There's nothing inhumane about this. You just don't like it because these particular rodents were abandoned pets, instead of being bred as food. What's inhumane is people getting animals as pets and then changing their minds and turning them in to shelters. If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the over 300 people who shirked their responsibility to their pets. Not the guy who is selling food to the people who are taking care of theirs.
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Exactly this. The public gets mad about a story like this, yet many of them have abandoned pets to shelters before. They'll shout for blood over this but they won't do a damn thing about the flood of pets that end up in shelters every year, so their outrage is false. I can't be mad about rodents getting put down and frozen, to be fed to pets that have owners who care for them. It doesn't actually matter whether a rodent had a previous owner. That's a weird moral line we draw for no good reason.
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@t.h.8475 They had more animals than they could handle, so they pawned them off on someone else. Ironically, that's exactly what the original owners did, too. You don't get to give up on an animal and then pretend to be outraged when that animal didn't live the life you wanted for it. Over 300 rodents that were abandoned at a shelter and people are mad at the guy selling food to responsible pet owners. Give me a break. Until we start actively shaming all of the people who treat pets like toys - and do something about the insane number of animals that get abandoned every year - I don't want to hear it.
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It's fun to play make believe on the internet, isn't it? Meanwhile, you're mad because some rodents were being used as snake food, instead of some other rodents being used as snake food. The only real difference is that these ones were an active burden on shelters, while the others are bred for the purpose. This helped solve a problem, while providing more food for animals that have owners who actually take care of them. I know, I know. That's a lot of deep thinking to ask of someone whose go-to response is "Hulk smash!" but still, you could at least try to do better.
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He's getting in trouble for helping with the overcrowding in shelters, and selling food to people who actually take care of their pets. If people want to be mad, they should be mad at all the people who abandon their pets every year.
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