i can read random bugs' emotions better than these people read *their literal pet's emotions* that they see every day. also I find it so weird that people think it's safe for the predator animal? prey animals fight back y'know... like you shouldn't leave crickets or super worms in a tarantula's enclosure because when the tarantula is molting they could attack it while it's in that vulnerable position.
@@kai_maceration i also find it weird. just because your predator pet isn’t fighting, doesn’t mean there’s no danger. because prey fights back too, i have two dogs who often kill things in our backyard, and i live in a place with venomous snakes (copperheads and timber rattlesnakes) do you think i would ever let them near one? of course not. it’s common sense. so why would you let a situation where both parties can get hurt happen? it’s just weird…
Omg the hamster funeral, I can't. That mom has extremely toxic behavior towards that child. I had PTSD listening to her yell. I feel sorry for that hamster, even if it was already gone. Because I'm just imagining that it had plastic tubes and a tiny cage for an enclosure.
@@eden.nd. same... I'm only 19 so I still live with my parents, I legitimately get triggered hearing middle aged women yelling or crying because it just reminds me of my trauma.. for crying I sometimes feel bad, but it's usually when they're crying for entitled reasons like Karens. I only recently confronted her about it and I think she's making an effort to change..
oml me too. I went into fight or flight and just wanted to curl up into a little ball. Also, what she's yelling about doesn't even make any sense, which is that much scarier lol
I remember commented "i don't like her tone very much tbh" under the video of the girl throwing her hamster in the bag and I had so many mothers lose their shit at me. I got some interesting threats for that. I still don't like her tone very much lmao
I worry for those parents' kids because yelling at them like that is just gonna traumatize them. It's like they're doing a "getting my kids to hate me" speedrun.
Carnivals really need to stop giving kids live fish as prizes for games. The same goes for those people giving kids fish as party favors. I mean, just look at that woman who talked about having to buy a $400 tank because she felt like she couldn't say no to her kid. She looked pissed. It's just not fair to give someone's young kid a pet without their permission.
For that matter, people shouldn't be giving trees as favors either. I know that sounds awfully specific, but I actually saw a book I read as a kid suggesting that - it talked about a parent (who would be an Instagram influencer if they were doing these things today) giving out tiny fir trees as birthday party favors and waxing lyrical about how "meaningful" those favors were. If you don't have a yard, that's a complete non-starter (so it would have been a disappointment to me as I didn't have a yard) but I since learned that it takes a lot of work to raise a tree even if you DO have a yard. So trees should not be party favors or prizes any more than fish are. Because most of the fish will end up dying and most of the trees will end up in the trash and never planted.
@@rainyrouge5123 Nothing's wrong with little plastic toys and candy. But the sorts of parents who think giving trees as favors is a good idea are the sort who treat "making memories" as an aesthetic in contrast to all the "crass" stuff companies put out, as if the aesthetic of "making memories" is any less superficial than the things they're criticizing. And those parents never consider that they might make some memories of a kid being yelled at by a hyper-conservative father (think someone like the boy's dad from the movie Bridge to Terabithia) for not considering the work it takes to plant a tree - as if the parent who thought it was "meaningful" and "makes lasting memories" to give out trees wasn't the one to refuse to consider the work tree planting takes in the first place and that at best the trees would end up in the trash and at worst the kid gets in trouble.
@@lsmmoore1 At least trees don't have a brain (even assuming the forest floor network works like one, those trees aren't connected to it.) By the same logic we shouldn't give flowers, because they're guaranteed to die.
I once saw a tiktok of about four baby bunnies huddled together, crouched down, obviously scared out of their minds. and a cat right behind them ACTUALLY LICKING THE BUNNIES FUR. and EVERYONE in the comments were like 'oh! look at them! the cat thinks the bunnies are its kittens! they're best friends!' to make matters worse i tried to tell people that, no, they're not. one is prey, the other a predator. stop projecting human emotions onto this cat. AND EVERYONE was like 'you need to calm down. the cat isn't hurting the bunnies. its okay!' i wanted to bang my head against a wall
I have a cat and rabbit IRL who have a friendship/bond- but that type of relationship is not common and should not typically be encouraged. If no one is around they’re still not left out together. Letting a cat around baby bunnies is especially irresponsible because of how small they are, it makes them even more susceptible to potentially becoming cat dinner.
Goodness. When I showed my grandpa my bunnies and I noticed the one was frozen with eyes wide staring at him like she was having Vietnam flashbacks, I made sure to finish up fast so we can leave and she can relax. And some people really just leave the bunnies in actually dangerous situations getting little heart attacks.
God that's awful. Not only that but cat tongues have a lot of bacteria that small animals aren't going to do well with. It's not as bad as their teeth but it's still bad enough. Also the cat's instincts could kick in at any moment. It's not the cat's fault. It's what cats do. Which is why predator and prey animals need to be separate unless they've bonded from young ages and are supervised heavily.
Even a tiny scratch could introduce deadly bacteria from the cat's saliva (even people can get nasty infections, and we're much more resilient than a baby rabbit), small animals can die of fear/stress, and instinctively freeze to not trigger a predator's instincts. So those people were idiots.
My roommate had ball pythons and the breeder fed frozen and I remember her bragging about switching them to live because it was "more stimulating for them", I personally think she just liked killing the mice because if the snakes wouldn't eat the mouse she'd let the cats "play" with them, which I told her I wasn't comfortable with because one of the cats was mine and also animal cruelty but she did it anyways when I wasn't around. She kept the cage awful and they were always out of water unless I gave it to them, one day one of the snakes got bit by one of the mice and after that he refused food until he died. 😔 Eventually for other reasons, probably the state of the cage, the other snake passed away too 😔 I cried more for those snakes than she did
I'm sorry, that's really awful to go through. As someone who was raised with parents that had a "raised on a farm" mentality I bonded with a lot of animals that they didn't care about and thus suffered a lot of emotional trauma. Your roommate sounds like a piece of work, especially to violate your boundaries by continuing her stupidity with your cat when you weren't around? Clown behavior. I hope you are doing alright
From what I seen on Snake Discovery you could just simply buy like feeding toys or hold the dead animal in like tongs or something and move it around instead of switching to live animals and risking the health of the snake
Yeah I had a friend that had to feed her ball live cause the breeder raised her on live and every attempt to get the snake to eat frozen didn't work. But one time in not even 20 seconds a feeder rat disfigured her lip on one side of her face and took out a couple chunks down her back. The owner tried to immediately get the rat out but it took a couple seconds to safely grab the rat. I've also heard of rats killing snakes when they were left in the enclosure.
Regarding the "hamster funeral", your shouldn't do that because of biosecurity. A corpse decomposing has a lot of bacteria and the local animals could be affected (or even humans for some bacteria). Plus, you don't know who's gonna stumble upon it and the sight of a corpse decomposing is quite graphic
I agree and see where you’re coming from on the second part but I’m a little confused about the fist bit. Animals die in the wild all the time in the wild and they don’t get other animals sick, don’t they? (Not trying to be rude just curious)
@@gabrielle4821 I don't know about in the wild, maybe it happens more often than we think, but that's a good point. But for example, when a cow dies in a farm, someone has to get the corpse. Otherwise wild animals or even the dog of the farm could eat it and get infested with neospora (or get sick with some bacteria because you don’t necessarily know why the animal died). In some countries, vets are not supposed to give the body of their pet to the owner when it dies for the same reasons (although in France vets usually do it even if they're not supposed to 😅).
@Gabrielle domestic animals are often bred and raised a long way away from the places they're kept as pets. This means they could be carrying foreign pathogens or diseases that local fauna have no natural immunity against. Even if the pet is locally bred, it could still become a carrier if it's put in or near an enclosure that's housed foreign imports (or otherwise has a risk factor for cross contamination like using the same equipment to clean the different pets' enclosures), especially if they were housed at the same time. This could easily happen in pet stores, where various animals from various sources are all kept and maintained in close proximity. A very common way for diseases to spread is through the decomposition of corpses. It's one thing to have a native animal die and be consumed, but when you introduce a foreign animal to the equation, you also bring the risk of a major disease outbreak if it just so happens to be a carrier to something the local area wouldn't usually have exposure (and therefore resistance) to.
OMG YOU'RE RIGHT I hope the other animals will be ok and not get infected! Also… It's probably gonna go across all countries and probably even into my country as well! I hope I don't discover the decomposing corpse of the dead rodent 💀
The four hundred dollar free fish happened with my step mom too. A family member rescued a really neglected gold fish out of an abandoned apartment and then dumped it on my step mom. She was so pissed because she didn’t want the fish but didn’t want the fish to just die either. She dropped a lot of money for an adequate tank and necessary supplies.
I've had both a "free" hamster and a "free" cat like that. My husband worked for Pet Smart for a while, he rescued a hamster that had been mauled by the others in her cage and left to die. He got her out and, when she recovered, he got her for free because she was "damaged merchandise". We immediately spent over $100 getting her a cage and supplies. She lived to be four. Our "free" cat was abandoned when my parents' neighbors moved. She eventually got skinny enough to squeeze under the fence. $500 in vet bills, $100 pet deposit, and various prices for supplies, we had a cat.
My kids recently won some goldfish at a fair also and I had a 20 gallon tank for them, went and bought a bunch of supplies and water treatment stuff for the tank and unfortunately the poor fish still died and I felt so terrible.
Similar situation here, except the fish was not in a horrible state, just pet store type neglected probably (no noticable physical damage) and it was dropped on my parets as a birthday gift for me. Cuz I always wanted a dog so what does my aunt buy for my 6 year old me for birthday instead of sweets? 2 goldfish that none of us ever wanted. We took good care of them, not the best as my parents didnt know much, but they put the effort into getting them a good tank with all needed equipment (tho now that I find out the tank was probably small for them cuz turns out goldfish can grow quite large and require a bigger tank but well... they did their best)
My friend's snake has a stuffed animal in its cage and it loves it. it literally sleeps on it and actually never uses it as a bathroom. its SO CUTE Edit: he has no idea why it loves the plushie and he originally put it in the cage as a joke
I mean, I assume there’s some kind of sun lamp in the cage, the plush would probably catch the heat from it better, and that snake is gonna love a warm place to snuggle.
So when you said stuffed animal I imagined a taxidermy animal 😅 before I read the "plushie" Also I hope the plushie is too big for the snake to swallow, but other than that it's cute
The woman on the fish prize video is Felicia Day, she's an actress, played Charlie on Supernatural, a beloved character. So her humorous tone is not unusual, I don't think she's pissed for spending $400 like some commentors mentioned. Loved to see her again ngl, SPN feels like a fever dream nowadays lol
As a person who's kept reptiles my whole life, i felt you when you said you were rly pissed off at the live mice feeders. If your snake isn't eating scent your frozen thawed mice with frog scent. Don't ask me why it works, but i hear it does.
I mostly hear frog/toad scenting when talking about hognose snakes, since that is what they eat in the wild and they are notoriously picky eaters. There are a variety of scents you can use, like frog/toad, tuna, and chicken heart to name a few. It doesn't work for every snake, though. You can even try braining the mice if it comes to it(gore warning if you look it up). Sadly, some snakes will only eat live, but it is the tiniest minority. You should exhaust every option before feeding live. On a side note; the snake in the video is a corn snake. Litteral trash cans that will eat anything. Something is very wrong if the snake ain't eating.
@@snekysneksHey, don't call corn snakes trash cans /lh. They will eat anything and everything but you don't need to shame them for being hungry bastards. Yeah, if a corn snake isn't eating and it isn't a male in spring, you've fucked up real bad with your husbandry
@@snekysneksTHIS. The only snakes that care less about what they're eating than corn snakes are kingsnakes. I don't think I've ever heard of a corn snake just refusing to eat anything but live
Had a snake (a very young ball python, so you know, a snake that craves starvation) that refused to take f/t (tried every trick known to man, I've been keeping snakes for nearly 20 years so nobody come at me lmao) so I offered her a live mouse. She wanted nothing to do with it, so took the mouse out and moved it to temp housing. Tried again a week later. She still did not want the mouse. Set up a proper enclosure for mouse (who was now called Dinner) and I had a very lovely pet for about three years. :) Snake did eventually come around to eating but by then I was too attached to Dinner, so she was spared.
I actually sadly just lost my budgie 8 days ago. I had her cremated she was an absolute Angel. She was a rescue and inspired me to adopt more rescue birds in need of homes. Flight cages everywhere 😁
I'm a parrot mom and the amount of times people have sent me the video of the green cheek conure and the hamster, thinking it's funny, is CRAZY. How messed up in the head do you have to be to train an animal to torture another animal??
As a person who has 3 snakes, I'm amazed by your knowledge about feeding live and leaving the prey with the predator. You spoke about all the reasons, that I, personally, always talk about with others. There's no more or less to say about this topic. A mouse, rat or any other prey item should never be left alone with a snake (or other predator), if the snake doesn't want to eat. It can cause a lot of harm to the snake and even kill it (Yes, mice can kill snakes). I don't feed live, thankfully, and I don't think that I could do it, 'cause I love rodents/birds and I don't want to see them being constricted or slowly die of envenomation. Responsible snake breeders always try to hold their snakes as long as it takes for them to switch to eating frozen/thawed, only then they'll sell them. Sometimes, snakes don't want to eat f/t and they're always labeled as the ones that eat only live. The only risk that I know about feeding f/t is that, that if they are delivered in bad conditions (come in thawed and not fully frozen) they have to be refunded, because bacteria gathered in them and it can be dangerous to feed (just like any other food that was meant to be frozen).
I relate to you saying you don't think you could feed live. I love spiders, but I don't want to get one as a pet because they only eat live. for ex if I kept roaches for them it would break my heart to feed the little cuties to them, I love hissing roaches and dubias😭 idk I don't think it's even an inhumane way to kill a bug, but I really don't like being the cause of a bug's death? I'm a huge bug nerd
@@kai_maceration We'll when it comes to bugs... I do have a colony, because I have a Leopard Gecko. The begging was a problem, because I love Dubias, but I got over it. Most of my roaches and other bugs live a full life, but some of them (a very small percentage) is actually food for other pets (started with gecko then turtles and chickens).
@@Angelo-xm3eo yeah true, I only have a problem with doing it myself because I have a phobia of harming bugs specifically, when I was like 4 or 6 I freaked out because I thought I crushed a grasshopper's leg while cupping it in my hands, it was perfectly fine but it really effected the way I see bugs
The tank in the $400 dollar setup might be a Fluval Spec 5 gal, they run about $130, so with the filter, heater, and decor I could see the bill running that high easily. Especially the way prices have gone up lately.
I almost won a live turtle from a fair once. I begged and cried to my mom to let me keep it, but she insisted we couldn't so I got a stuffed turtle instead. Looking back, I am SO glad my mom didn't let me keep it, 1. because I was WAY too young to be a good caretaker for a turtle, and 2. we absolutely could not have given it a good life with my parents' incomes
The bird you thought was a quaker was a conure I think. I feel bad for the conure, too, because if they can't take care of the hamster correctly (they aren't SUPER hard to take care of) how are they going to take care of the parrot? They're kind of hard to take care of.
@@allaroundanimals83 not to mention those so-called "pet owners" are also trying to demonize parrots, too. If anything, that video with the hamster and conure is just straight up disturbing. So many of these people are either sick in the head or just pure evil.
That video of the bird spinning the hamster upset me greatly. I used to have a robo dwarf hamster and two budgies currently (2 others in the past too) and i cant imagine horribly mistreating animals like that. Its horrifying. Why would someone train a cute bird just to torture another animal in the process? It looks so scared :(
I used to work for a local reptile museum and we used to get abandoned snakes that were horribly injured, some with skeletons exposed. The owners would leave the feeder with their reptile, just like this, not taking into consideration that rodents need to eat a lot more often than snakes.
TLDR: I share experiences & advice about corn snake care 🐍 To add to the last snake point as well, it looks like they just have a small enclosure for that cornie, the sort you can use for babies but should upgrade when they reach a year old... I might be wrong because you can’t actually see the entire viv, but the impression I get from that video is that it seems like they a basic set up 😞 just some basic bedding, one hide (which isn’t even a proper hide because it has two entrances so doesn’t allow proper hiding for snakey 😑), one water bowl (which doesn’t even look big enough for him to fully submerge himself in) with, hopefully 🤞, a heat mat, in a top-opening 2ft viv 😒 It’s sadly really common for people to think this is suitable for their snakes entire life just because it was okay when it was a small baby, but it’s stunts their growth and is generally bad for their development and welfare. Corn snakes need a viv that they can fully stretch out in (4-5ft long) with a front/side opening glass door (so you’re not leering down on them from above as much, which reduce stress a lot), a heat lamp (with UV light for healthier scales and heat mat in winter, since cornies actually generally prefer a ground heat source), a digital thermometer and hygrometer to accurately measure temperature and humidity (25-30 degrees Celsius at hot end by the light/heat source, and 18-23C at the cooler end) at least two hides (one in the hot end of the viv and one at the cool end, both of which they should be able to properly hide completely in, plus a moist hide can be added to help when they’re shedding) a water bowl they can fully submerge in (so they can bathe when shedding if they want), an inch thick bedding (cornies love to burrow), some enrichment items/toys (mine has a long toilet roll and play ball 😅) and foliage / plants (fake or real both work, just something which helps hide them a bit while they are travelling above ground), in order to have a happy, healthy corn snake, who should live for 20+ years, so long as you keep up to date with care and habitat variety, like you would for any other pet 🤷♀️ Also, Soda was completely right about feeding frozen/thawed rather than live. Mice every 10-14 days for adults, occasionally a rat or chick for nutritional variety, but not regularly because they are fattier (chicks were described to me as like having a really nice dessert in a posh restaurant; every so often as a treat is alright, but not regularly, mine had a chicks head on Christmas Day, he didn’t want the body 😅) Some snakes prefer to eat in their viv to reduce stress of being moved, but others, like mine, prefer to be out in a separate empty, small box to avoid distractions ( I have to cover the box in a Towel and leave him with the mouse for an hour or so before returning him home 😅) But they shouldn’t be handled during or after feeding for three days at least and give them a good week or so when they are shedding (basically, when their eyes go blue, it’s time to leave them alone until a shed appears overnight).
i was always told its better to feed like because frozen takes out some more of the nutrients? when i feed live they go fast and all im just curious. but also mice will like kill some snakes so also that
@@DeathmasGraphics no, frozen thawed is better, more humane and more safe. they'll still get what they need. I think it just depends how long you wait till you feed it, like if you wait months..uh yeah it's gonna not be so edible anyways. feeding live is not only dangerous for both mouse and snake, but not really humane.
She's not right. She said feeding live has zero benefit for snakes and that's just not true. If that was the case, they would only eat dead animals in the wild, which they don't. Frozen animals lose nutrients once killed and frozen and continue to do so the longer they are frozen. Once I get a snake, I'm feeding live, that's what they're meant to eat and what they hunt naturally.
@@DeathmasGraphics there’s no substantial difference in nutritional value between frozen and live foods if frozen quickly after death and correctly. It is much more dangerous to feed live and it is stressful for both predator and prey. You can supplement some nutrients when needed but unless you feed them birds that also isn’t necessary (birds have less calcium than rodents). It’s also a lot cheaper, you can buy in bulk and keep the frozen prey for a year before the nutritional values starts to drop. Some snakes simply won’t switch but if they can f/t is much safer for all parties.
Just a little thing about heat mats, they aren’t actually effective in providing heat in a vivarium except directly above it. ‘Belly heat’ only exists in the wild as heat reflected off of rocks which is incredibly easy to imitate in captivity with a piece of slate and a heat lamp. Heat mats make it incredibly easy for the snake to burn itself as they cannot otherwise properly thermoregulate (either hot on the heat mat or cold elsewhere) as they do absolutely nothing for the ambient temperature. They are only actually effective in tubs which is a whole different can of worms. Some corn snakes also enjoy burrowing from time to time and heat mats are actually counterintuitive for that behavior, not only by needing thinner substrate but also reversing the impact of heat (as they go deeper, it should get cooler, not warmer unless it’s time to brumate… even then it shouldn’t get to the 70s+ F temperatures underground). I don’t blame you for using them, the reptile world is evolving at a rapid rate and a lot of sources and people cling to old practices. They’re really not ever necessary to use outside of tubs and emergencies.
“$400 free fish” haha I feel that. I adopted a mouse from a shelter, he was only like $8. But I’ve put so much money into spoiling him cause he’s my lil guy and he deserves it
I could be wrong but most sinks with that style of drain in the US have garbage disposals. I don't know if that particular sink does for sure but usually sinks that don't have the disposal attached have a much smaller drain or a grid over the drain. So the fish is most likely sitting in the garbage disposal until someone pulls it out or it dies from drying out or from the disposal being turned on. It's a really slow and awful way to kill your fish. If this ever happens to you (and you should take every precaution to not let it happen in the first place) just reach your hand inside and grab the fish out. It might be injured but it can survive this happening. But not if you're too busy screaming, laughing or panicking to think to pull it out.
So the lady with the fish from the penguin game is Felicia Day and shes an actress that was on Supernatural 😂 she's awesome and probably did her best with the situation that the carnival gave her
Not only that, but it was a corn snake. Those guys have voracious appetites; mine never misses a meal. Idk what they are doing to that poor snake to make it not want to eat, but it ain't good.
Hey Soda, could you please consider reacting to fish tanks on the show Tanked? I'm always wondering whether they are overstocking tanks and whether it is even possible to feed the fish or clean the tanks in their monster tanks. Would be happy to hear other no-nos like their tanks being in kid playrooms and tapped against or in a club with loud music.
I’m very late but used to watch that show a lot. every now and then I watch interviews with Brett… they usually came back and removed a lot of fish after filming I guess.. had a lot to do with more fish looking better for TV and as far as cleaning and feeding.. they recommend the people who bought their tanks to hire a maintenance team for it..because “if you can spend 100k on a fish tank, you can afford to pay someone to maintain it”
Let this be a lesson to everybody. I am a ball python owner whose ball python refuses to eat Frozen thawed rat anymore. She has refused eating them since 2017 and the summertime and since then I've pretty much had to feed her live rats from then on. And I can assure you that while I do this out of necessity and the decision was a very hard one to make. As I absolutely love rats and while I keep them in separate spaces I own five Rats of my own. And I absolutely adore them and I keep them far away from my ball python. But it is upsetting to bring home to rats every other week or so to feed her as it is stressful for both her and myself. I get stressed out because I know what they are capable of when rats are distressed. And I have heard of ball pythons consuming rat that they perceived as being dead the rat surviving and then eating its way out of your snake. So it's both stressful during and after the hunting process and her consuming her pray. So I do not take the action of feeding my ball python lightly. And the reason why I own five rats is to kind of be able to pay back all the love and affection that these other rodents wouldn't be able to experience having become my ball pythons food. So my baby is I give lots of attention and food and toys and treats
I think they just tried to make a "Fishermans funeral"with the hamster it ended up to be a poor execution but.....lol.we did that with our dogs ashes at his fav beach in France. but jaa ashes not a bodypaperbag I can't hahah
I love the mom who got that tank for the betta, we had a similar situation with my turtle got him for $8 from an expo when I was 7 for my birthday the same “I can’t say no” we now have $400+ in care for him he turned 10 this year I love him so much
My roommate currently has one of those small fish tanks for her betta fish (it's like a 1 gallon tank). She does a full water change once a week, sometimes she waits a week and a half to actually change the water. I feel so bad for her fish, but I can't convince her to get a bigger tank since she has nowhere to put a bigger tank. (She originally bought the fish as an impulse buy when she was shopping with one of her friends at Petco)
With the hamster... funeral, I'm guessing the mom started screaming that cause the kid looked like they were about to bolt down the cliff (to put the hamster into the water), which would've been dangerous. So like telling them it'll get there. Probably not the best reaction though XD
At one of the fairs I went to with the fish as prizes, instead of fish they were giving away turtles and iguanas!! arguably even worse considering the vendor giving them away kept insisting they would only grow to the size of their container
At 4:23 that's Felicia Day, an actress I know from Supernatural. I was NOT expecting to see her in one of these videos lmao, but she seems exactly like the type of person to spend $400 dollars just to make sure a fish has a good life
the bird with the hamster is actually a green cheeked conure, I own three of them and they might be absolute maniacs but they wouldnt do that unless trained!
On that vid with the cats watching the fake fish.. It would take a LOT of effort for one of those cats to choke on that fish XD They'd first try to bite it, and probably realize it's too hard to chew, so they'd most likely just leave it alone after that. For a cat to choke on it, they'd have to break off a sizeable piece or.. for some reason, attempt to swallow it whole. (Which most cats are smart enough to not do with something THAT big) It was a decently sized fish and I've seen smaller, more choke hazard looking kong toys for _dogs.._ There was nothing wrong with that fish toy for those cats.
I always feel concerned when there’s new content on this. Can’t believe people would still resort to violence for views. May they get the help they need. Thank you for always spreading awareness as you can. Amen. 💔❤️🙏 P.S. Props to those who are willing to educate themselves on animal care for improvement though. ❤
I used to keep beta fish in a tiny tank just like the first one and I will always feel guilty for that even though I was a kid and wasn’t taught any better by any of the adults who let me take those fish home. I didn’t know they could be aggressive with each other until I had the tank so I just bought a divider so each fish had hardly any room to move. They were probably miserable.
@@Home_of_Heartes stargazing is conditon that can happen if hamster has been dropped or injured. It’s sorta of brain damaged and the hamster will often look up has it walking or have no sense of balance x
A few years ago I had won a goldfish from the fair and bought a few more from the pet store and they lived 4-5 years, and then like we went to the same fair a few years later and someone got handed a free fish card and I heard them behind me say "goldfish only last a few days" and I kinda got mad because that only happened if they are sick or they don't have the right stuff for them because you can't just put them in a fish bowl and only feed them they need a big tank and the right filtration and stuff.
I def agree with you on frozen being safer and more humane, unfortunately at the store I work at we have some ball pythons who will just not eat frozen 🥲 even giving the mouse a lil wiggle or coating my hands with rodent smell prior from our live mice or pet hamsters up front doesn't entice them. So i tell people "try frozen first but if that doesn't work, a fed snake is better than an unfed one" and ofc giving them the lil spiel about removing uneaten prey as well as tips for getting the frozen rodent to seem more enticing... but some snakes are just like that unfortunately. The removal of live prey also applies to insect food for other reptiles, amphibians and inverts.
When you started laughing at the hamster funeral....I could not stop laughing too. Who thought about that idea???? I hope that mean mother gets the same funeral....the kids can thrown her coffin off a cliff lol.
At 14:39 my snake did the same thing a while back. I feed live because it is easier both cost wise and other stuff too, since she refuses thawed and frozen. Its also a personal preference for myself to feed live, one time I passed out while the feeding was going live and the mouse ended up eating a large chunk of her tail off. She lived and shes healed now but I never let my rats stay in the cage for more than an hour anymore
years ago I went to a camp that had a ball python that we kept for some time (I don't remember details, I was like, 7 or something) but they had us feeding live, and I guess they didn't say anything about taking the mouse out if the snake doesn't eat it, because that snake ended up dead and partially eaten by the mouse, which no one in my family could have fathomed would ever happen
I was looking up pictures of betta fish (they’re so pretty) I found a small orb. It’s supposed to be a hanging fish tank. It’s like x3 the size of the betta. And of course, it’s from SHEIN. (The abt the size of a Christmas ornament.)
I used to remove my betta from the tank if I was doing large water changes, because the movement of my hands and tools coming in and out of the tank and the water levels dropping etc. stressed him out way worse than being put aside in a bowl in a quiet area for a few minutes. He would stress out so badly when I cleaned the tank with him in there he would turn grey and lose all his color from stress. So, sometimes you just do things the way your fish is happiest. Nothing wrong with that.
My goodness I never feel like your videos are long enough! I totally understand why you might not do longer videos a lot, it can be very taxing I'm sure. I just wanted to let you know I really enjoy your content! You have a very nice voice to listen to! I hope anyone reading this has a good day!
13:37 THEY COULDN'T HAVE PUT A STRAINER OR A PLUG IN THE SINK?! Like, I have a 60 L tank and a prehaps under 10 L that I use like for baby fish back when I first started out which I do now have a bigger isolation tank though which is around 20 L or so but I've just been using that for water changes and just make sure there are no fish in there before I put it in the bucket for cleaning the filter and the fake moss rock tunnel. What happened here was easily preventable, and these people just wearn't thinking. Clearly.
The weirdest thing about the hamster funeral video is that isn't even a cliff! they're just kinda standing on a bit of a hill at the edge of a beach aiming for the sea. They could have EASILY climbed down, retrieved the hamster bag and thrown it into the sea from nearer to the sea but the mum was freaking out that if they got any near they were gonna get washed away by the sea lmao?
In that video with the hamster and parrot they use Трава у дома, one of the most beautiful soviet songs ever made. It upsets me so much, hearing it being used for background music in an animal abuse video.
When I was a kid we lived in Tokyo. People used to give away free goldfish for the emperor’s birthday. Like the mother at the fiat we ended having to buy a load of stuff to keep them alive. They were cool fish though, including some black ones with their eyes out on stalks
10:22 the bird is a green cheek conure! I have one with almost the same colors ❤ they’re insanely smart and that means someone trained him/her to do that to the hamster 😢
Oh my god thats so cruel that they dont show you what the carnival prize is until you win it DX Just “here you go! *You have to take the fish now!* Enjoy the care costs! 😁”
As a snake owner...that snake/mouse video pissed me off...so much That is so messed up tbh. It's stressful for both animals and is also DANGEROUS for both animals... Why can't people just educate themselves properly and take care of their dang animals ;_;
The bird with the hamster is actually a green cheek conure that appears to be a pineapple color mutation but I’m not 100% positive on that but I’m glad I learned a lot about fish
When I was little, I really wanted small animals… so my parents got me toy versions. I had a few Zhu Zhu Pets, a robo-fish, and a robotic hermit crab toy I can’t quite remember the name of. Parents really have no excuse buying pets they’re not prepared to care for when you can just buy your child a little toy version that still makes noise, runs in an enclosure, and can be played with.
That first video was cool, but that tank looked like a fair bit of expense went into it. Which obviously is great if you can, but not everyone can. What I'd love is a no-nonsense video showing what the basic requirements are for a beta (as in "if you can't meet these thresholds, do not get a fish"), with costings so that someone just getting into it can know how much at minimum they must spend in order to do it properly. I think that would be a really helpful thing for responsible would-be owners to decide if this is something they can do and how much they need to set aside at minimum in order to do it right.
In regards to the mouse and the snake, it always irritates me when I see stuff like this. I know a guy who got the bright idea to feed his snake a live shrew he caught. He then went outside to do something else. When he returned back, he had a half eaten snake-carcass and a very full shrew in the tank. He never fed live animals to his reptiles again, nor wild-caught ones for that matter. He did however let the Shrew eat the rest of the snake before letting it go, his reasoning was that as that it would be a shame to waste the dead snake. He is a bit of a weird guy, but has mellowed out over the past decade or so and become a more responsible pet-keeper.
Cornsnakes will literally eat golfballs if they look tasty enough so that snake definitely can eat frozen/thawed mice. I'm convinced the only people who feed their common pet trade snakes live mice do it for fun, 100%. I worked at a reptile zoo and even they didn't feed their snakes live food.
reminder: your predator and prey pets aren’t friends, you’re just bad at reading your pet’s emotions
Bad at reading pets emotions? You mean bad at reading anything about the pets you buy?
I want this framed on my wall I agree so hard
i can read random bugs' emotions better than these people read *their literal pet's emotions* that they see every day.
also I find it so weird that people think it's safe for the predator animal? prey animals fight back y'know... like you shouldn't leave crickets or super worms in a tarantula's enclosure because when the tarantula is molting they could attack it while it's in that vulnerable position.
@@SpottedKit329 that too.
@@kai_maceration i also find it weird. just because your predator pet isn’t fighting, doesn’t mean there’s no danger. because prey fights back too, i have two dogs who often kill things in our backyard, and i live in a place with venomous snakes (copperheads and timber rattlesnakes) do you think i would ever let them near one? of course not. it’s common sense. so why would you let a situation where both parties can get hurt happen? it’s just weird…
Omg the hamster funeral, I can't. That mom has extremely toxic behavior towards that child. I had PTSD listening to her yell. I feel sorry for that hamster, even if it was already gone. Because I'm just imagining that it had plastic tubes and a tiny cage for an enclosure.
Fr, from the time she said "you blew it" my whole body tensed up and I'm in my 30s & my mum's been dead 7 years 😬
Ikr..
@@eden.nd. same... I'm only 19 so I still live with my parents, I legitimately get triggered hearing middle aged women yelling or crying because it just reminds me of my trauma.. for crying I sometimes feel bad, but it's usually when they're crying for entitled reasons like Karens.
I only recently confronted her about it and I think she's making an effort to change..
oml me too. I went into fight or flight and just wanted to curl up into a little ball. Also, what she's yelling about doesn't even make any sense, which is that much scarier lol
We don't know how its cage was so we shouldn't assume, but that mother was really rude.
I remember commented "i don't like her tone very much tbh" under the video of the girl throwing her hamster in the bag and I had so many mothers lose their shit at me. I got some interesting threats for that. I still don't like her tone very much lmao
I worry for those parents' kids because yelling at them like that is just gonna traumatize them. It's like they're doing a "getting my kids to hate me" speedrun.
they hated you because you spoke the truth
@@noriii fr tho
name me one of the threats lol
Do u not believe them or smth@@th4t1kand1k1d.
Carnivals really need to stop giving kids live fish as prizes for games. The same goes for those people giving kids fish as party favors. I mean, just look at that woman who talked about having to buy a $400 tank because she felt like she couldn't say no to her kid. She looked pissed. It's just not fair to give someone's young kid a pet without their permission.
For that matter, people shouldn't be giving trees as favors either. I know that sounds awfully specific, but I actually saw a book I read as a kid suggesting that - it talked about a parent (who would be an Instagram influencer if they were doing these things today) giving out tiny fir trees as birthday party favors and waxing lyrical about how "meaningful" those favors were. If you don't have a yard, that's a complete non-starter (so it would have been a disappointment to me as I didn't have a yard) but I since learned that it takes a lot of work to raise a tree even if you DO have a yard. So trees should not be party favors or prizes any more than fish are. Because most of the fish will end up dying and most of the trees will end up in the trash and never planted.
@@lsmmoore1 What's wrong with little plastic toys and candy? Why do parents think they're too cool to give out little plastic toys and candy?
@@rainyrouge5123 Nothing's wrong with little plastic toys and candy. But the sorts of parents who think giving trees as favors is a good idea are the sort who treat "making memories" as an aesthetic in contrast to all the "crass" stuff companies put out, as if the aesthetic of "making memories" is any less superficial than the things they're criticizing.
And those parents never consider that they might make some memories of a kid being yelled at by a hyper-conservative father (think someone like the boy's dad from the movie Bridge to Terabithia) for not considering the work it takes to plant a tree - as if the parent who thought it was "meaningful" and "makes lasting memories" to give out trees wasn't the one to refuse to consider the work tree planting takes in the first place and that at best the trees would end up in the trash and at worst the kid gets in trouble.
Yes! How many people can even afford to drop $400 on a fish too. Thankfully, this fish went to someone who can care for it.
@@lsmmoore1 At least trees don't have a brain (even assuming the forest floor network works like one, those trees aren't connected to it.) By the same logic we shouldn't give flowers, because they're guaranteed to die.
I once saw a tiktok of about four baby bunnies huddled together, crouched down, obviously scared out of their minds. and a cat right behind them ACTUALLY LICKING THE BUNNIES FUR. and EVERYONE in the comments were like 'oh! look at them! the cat thinks the bunnies are its kittens! they're best friends!' to make matters worse i tried to tell people that, no, they're not. one is prey, the other a predator. stop projecting human emotions onto this cat. AND EVERYONE was like 'you need to calm down. the cat isn't hurting the bunnies. its okay!'
i wanted to bang my head against a wall
I have a cat and rabbit IRL who have a friendship/bond- but that type of relationship is not common and should not typically be encouraged. If no one is around they’re still not left out together.
Letting a cat around baby bunnies is especially irresponsible because of how small they are, it makes them even more susceptible to potentially becoming cat dinner.
Goodness. When I showed my grandpa my bunnies and I noticed the one was frozen with eyes wide staring at him like she was having Vietnam flashbacks, I made sure to finish up fast so we can leave and she can relax. And some people really just leave the bunnies in actually dangerous situations getting little heart attacks.
I saw one similar to this of rabbit and cat coparenting their offspring I don’t get why they wouldn’t separate them at all
God that's awful. Not only that but cat tongues have a lot of bacteria that small animals aren't going to do well with. It's not as bad as their teeth but it's still bad enough. Also the cat's instincts could kick in at any moment. It's not the cat's fault. It's what cats do. Which is why predator and prey animals need to be separate unless they've bonded from young ages and are supervised heavily.
Even a tiny scratch could introduce deadly bacteria from the cat's saliva (even people can get nasty infections, and we're much more resilient than a baby rabbit), small animals can die of fear/stress, and instinctively freeze to not trigger a predator's instincts. So those people were idiots.
My roommate had ball pythons and the breeder fed frozen and I remember her bragging about switching them to live because it was "more stimulating for them", I personally think she just liked killing the mice because if the snakes wouldn't eat the mouse she'd let the cats "play" with them, which I told her I wasn't comfortable with because one of the cats was mine and also animal cruelty but she did it anyways when I wasn't around. She kept the cage awful and they were always out of water unless I gave it to them, one day one of the snakes got bit by one of the mice and after that he refused food until he died. 😔 Eventually for other reasons, probably the state of the cage, the other snake passed away too 😔 I cried more for those snakes than she did
I'm sorry, that's really awful to go through. As someone who was raised with parents that had a "raised on a farm" mentality I bonded with a lot of animals that they didn't care about and thus suffered a lot of emotional trauma. Your roommate sounds like a piece of work, especially to violate your boundaries by continuing her stupidity with your cat when you weren't around? Clown behavior. I hope you are doing alright
That’s awful I’m sorry you went through that
From what I seen on Snake Discovery you could just simply buy like feeding toys or hold the dead animal in like tongs or something and move it around instead of switching to live animals and risking the health of the snake
Yeah I had a friend that had to feed her ball live cause the breeder raised her on live and every attempt to get the snake to eat frozen didn't work. But one time in not even 20 seconds a feeder rat disfigured her lip on one side of her face and took out a couple chunks down her back. The owner tried to immediately get the rat out but it took a couple seconds to safely grab the rat. I've also heard of rats killing snakes when they were left in the enclosure.
Actually for indoor cats giving them live mice is good for the cats, it's really wack that they were bragging about that though
Regarding the "hamster funeral", your shouldn't do that because of biosecurity. A corpse decomposing has a lot of bacteria and the local animals could be affected (or even humans for some bacteria). Plus, you don't know who's gonna stumble upon it and the sight of a corpse decomposing is quite graphic
I agree and see where you’re coming from on the second part but I’m a little confused about the fist bit. Animals die in the wild all the time in the wild and they don’t get other animals sick, don’t they? (Not trying to be rude just curious)
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I don't know about in the wild, maybe it happens more often than we think, but that's a good point.
But for example, when a cow dies in a farm, someone has to get the corpse. Otherwise wild animals or even the dog of the farm could eat it and get infested with neospora (or get sick with some bacteria because you don’t necessarily know why the animal died). In some countries, vets are not supposed to give the body of their pet to the owner when it dies for the same reasons (although in France vets usually do it even if they're not supposed to 😅).
@Gabrielle domestic animals are often bred and raised a long way away from the places they're kept as pets. This means they could be carrying foreign pathogens or diseases that local fauna have no natural immunity against.
Even if the pet is locally bred, it could still become a carrier if it's put in or near an enclosure that's housed foreign imports (or otherwise has a risk factor for cross contamination like using the same equipment to clean the different pets' enclosures), especially if they were housed at the same time. This could easily happen in pet stores, where various animals from various sources are all kept and maintained in close proximity.
A very common way for diseases to spread is through the decomposition of corpses. It's one thing to have a native animal die and be consumed, but when you introduce a foreign animal to the equation, you also bring the risk of a major disease outbreak if it just so happens to be a carrier to something the local area wouldn't usually have exposure (and therefore resistance) to.
OMG YOU'RE RIGHT I hope the other animals will be ok and not get infected! Also…
It's probably gonna go across all countries and probably even into my country as well! I hope I don't discover the decomposing corpse of the dead rodent 💀
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l thanks! I thought it might have something to do with it being foreign.
The four hundred dollar free fish happened with my step mom too. A family member rescued a really neglected gold fish out of an abandoned apartment and then dumped it on my step mom. She was so pissed because she didn’t want the fish but didn’t want the fish to just die either. She dropped a lot of money for an adequate tank and necessary supplies.
I've had both a "free" hamster and a "free" cat like that. My husband worked for Pet Smart for a while, he rescued a hamster that had been mauled by the others in her cage and left to die. He got her out and, when she recovered, he got her for free because she was "damaged merchandise". We immediately spent over $100 getting her a cage and supplies. She lived to be four.
Our "free" cat was abandoned when my parents' neighbors moved. She eventually got skinny enough to squeeze under the fence. $500 in vet bills, $100 pet deposit, and various prices for supplies, we had a cat.
My kids recently won some goldfish at a fair also and I had a 20 gallon tank for them, went and bought a bunch of supplies and water treatment stuff for the tank and unfortunately the poor fish still died and I felt so terrible.
Did it live for a while at least
Similar situation here, except the fish was not in a horrible state, just pet store type neglected probably (no noticable physical damage) and it was dropped on my parets as a birthday gift for me. Cuz I always wanted a dog so what does my aunt buy for my 6 year old me for birthday instead of sweets? 2 goldfish that none of us ever wanted. We took good care of them, not the best as my parents didnt know much, but they put the effort into getting them a good tank with all needed equipment (tho now that I find out the tank was probably small for them cuz turns out goldfish can grow quite large and require a bigger tank but well... they did their best)
This just gave me even more reason to like Felicia Day. She basically had a pet thrust upon her and made sure that fish didn’t have to suffer for it.
My friend's snake has a stuffed animal in its cage and it loves it. it literally sleeps on it and actually never uses it as a bathroom. its SO CUTE
Edit: he has no idea why it loves the plushie and he originally put it in the cage as a joke
Wait what animal is it?
I mean, I assume there’s some kind of sun lamp in the cage, the plush would probably catch the heat from it better, and that snake is gonna love a warm place to snuggle.
UM the snake could choke on it and die that’s abuse :|
(Kidding kidding. That’s adorable)
So when you said stuffed animal I imagined a taxidermy animal 😅 before I read the "plushie"
Also I hope the plushie is too big for the snake to swallow, but other than that it's cute
aww snakes love soft stuff :)
The woman on the fish prize video is Felicia Day, she's an actress, played Charlie on Supernatural, a beloved character. So her humorous tone is not unusual, I don't think she's pissed for spending $400 like some commentors mentioned. Loved to see her again ngl, SPN feels like a fever dream nowadays lol
That prize fish truly is the winner in that situation. Bro won the lottery and actually got a responsible person to win
As a person who's kept reptiles my whole life, i felt you when you said you were rly pissed off at the live mice feeders. If your snake isn't eating scent your frozen thawed mice with frog scent. Don't ask me why it works, but i hear it does.
I mostly hear frog/toad scenting when talking about hognose snakes, since that is what they eat in the wild and they are notoriously picky eaters.
There are a variety of scents you can use, like frog/toad, tuna, and chicken heart to name a few. It doesn't work for every snake, though. You can even try braining the mice if it comes to it(gore warning if you look it up). Sadly, some snakes will only eat live, but it is the tiniest minority. You should exhaust every option before feeding live.
On a side note; the snake in the video is a corn snake. Litteral trash cans that will eat anything. Something is very wrong if the snake ain't eating.
@@snekysneksHey, don't call corn snakes trash cans /lh. They will eat anything and everything but you don't need to shame them for being hungry bastards. Yeah, if a corn snake isn't eating and it isn't a male in spring, you've fucked up real bad with your husbandry
@@snekysneksTHIS. The only snakes that care less about what they're eating than corn snakes are kingsnakes. I don't think I've ever heard of a corn snake just refusing to eat anything but live
I once had a lizard named get this ELIZabeth seriously not a joke
Had a snake (a very young ball python, so you know, a snake that craves starvation) that refused to take f/t (tried every trick known to man, I've been keeping snakes for nearly 20 years so nobody come at me lmao) so I offered her a live mouse. She wanted nothing to do with it, so took the mouse out and moved it to temp housing. Tried again a week later. She still did not want the mouse. Set up a proper enclosure for mouse (who was now called Dinner) and I had a very lovely pet for about three years. :)
Snake did eventually come around to eating but by then I was too attached to Dinner, so she was spared.
OMFG i love that u ended up having a pet that you named dinner
from snake food to pet, v nice
I actually sadly just lost my budgie 8 days ago. I had her cremated she was an absolute Angel. She was a rescue and inspired me to adopt more rescue birds in need of homes. Flight cages everywhere 😁
There is a website for a business that will turn your pets ashes into a gem for you if you are ever interested.
@@skydragon84 No I wouldn’t something about them being cremated makes them feel closer to me. ❤️
Ok I am so sorry for your loss, but I read “I ate her cremates”
Such a good mom, I loved when she said, "you better not die"
I'm a parrot mom and the amount of times people have sent me the video of the green cheek conure and the hamster, thinking it's funny, is CRAZY. How messed up in the head do you have to be to train an animal to torture another animal??
As a person who has 3 snakes, I'm amazed by your knowledge about feeding live and leaving the prey with the predator. You spoke about all the reasons, that I, personally, always talk about with others. There's no more or less to say about this topic. A mouse, rat or any other prey item should never be left alone with a snake (or other predator), if the snake doesn't want to eat. It can cause a lot of harm to the snake and even kill it (Yes, mice can kill snakes). I don't feed live, thankfully, and I don't think that I could do it, 'cause I love rodents/birds and I don't want to see them being constricted or slowly die of envenomation. Responsible snake breeders always try to hold their snakes as long as it takes for them to switch to eating frozen/thawed, only then they'll sell them. Sometimes, snakes don't want to eat f/t and they're always labeled as the ones that eat only live.
The only risk that I know about feeding f/t is that, that if they are delivered in bad conditions (come in thawed and not fully frozen) they have to be refunded, because bacteria gathered in them and it can be dangerous to feed (just like any other food that was meant to be frozen).
I relate to you saying you don't think you could feed live. I love spiders, but I don't want to get one as a pet because they only eat live. for ex if I kept roaches for them it would break my heart to feed the little cuties to them, I love hissing roaches and dubias😭 idk I don't think it's even an inhumane way to kill a bug, but I really don't like being the cause of a bug's death? I'm a huge bug nerd
@@kai_maceration We'll when it comes to bugs... I do have a colony, because I have a Leopard Gecko. The begging was a problem, because I love Dubias, but I got over it. Most of my roaches and other bugs live a full life, but some of them (a very small percentage) is actually food for other pets (started with gecko then turtles and chickens).
@@Angelo-xm3eo yeah true, I only have a problem with doing it myself because I have a phobia of harming bugs specifically, when I was like 4 or 6 I freaked out because I thought I crushed a grasshopper's leg while cupping it in my hands, it was perfectly fine but it really effected the way I see bugs
@@kai_maceration I never thought that this could be a thing. Thank you for telling me.
Bro legit wrote an essay
the lady talking about the story of her kid wining the beta, I kept thinking she looked familiar and now I know why. its Charlie from Supernatural
Felicia Day, I watched her when she had a show on RUclips, the guild. It was funny! She also did a collaboration with kitboga that was hilarious!
The tank in the $400 dollar setup might be a Fluval Spec 5 gal, they run about $130, so with the filter, heater, and decor I could see the bill running that high easily. Especially the way prices have gone up lately.
Not to mention decor is really expensive
I almost won a live turtle from a fair once. I begged and cried to my mom to let me keep it, but she insisted we couldn't so I got a stuffed turtle instead. Looking back, I am SO glad my mom didn't let me keep it, 1. because I was WAY too young to be a good caretaker for a turtle, and 2. we absolutely could not have given it a good life with my parents' incomes
The bird you thought was a quaker was a conure I think. I feel bad for the conure, too, because if they can't take care of the hamster correctly (they aren't SUPER hard to take care of) how are they going to take care of the parrot? They're kind of hard to take care of.
Exactly it’s really sad to see this and also the fact that they went through the steps to train the conure to abuse another animal is insane to me.
Black capped conure, yeah
Actually it’s a green cheek conure and it’s appears to be a pineapple color mutation
@@allaroundanimals83 not to mention those so-called "pet owners" are also trying to demonize parrots, too. If anything, that video with the hamster and conure is just straight up disturbing. So many of these people are either sick in the head or just pure evil.
That video of the bird spinning the hamster upset me greatly. I used to have a robo dwarf hamster and two budgies currently (2 others in the past too) and i cant imagine horribly mistreating animals like that. Its horrifying. Why would someone train a cute bird just to torture another animal in the process? It looks so scared :(
I used to work for a local reptile museum and we used to get abandoned snakes that were horribly injured, some with skeletons exposed. The owners would leave the feeder with their reptile, just like this, not taking into consideration that rodents need to eat a lot more often than snakes.
Thank you for talking about this Soda! I feel like no one addresses this! Off topic but I love you glasses frames
Thank you Felicia Day for NOT letting me down 😭 I was so scared
god same
I just hate when people torture animals
Same
Most people do lol
Are you like five years old
@@tatertotbobaandpieck no they are not they are just giving their opinion and I agree with it
@@tatertotbobaandpieck are you 5 years old? Do you like these kind of videos?
TLDR: I share experiences & advice about corn snake care 🐍
To add to the last snake point as well, it looks like they just have a small enclosure for that cornie, the sort you can use for babies but should upgrade when they reach a year old... I might be wrong because you can’t actually see the entire viv, but the impression I get from that video is that it seems like they a basic set up 😞 just some basic bedding, one hide (which isn’t even a proper hide because it has two entrances so doesn’t allow proper hiding for snakey 😑), one water bowl (which doesn’t even look big enough for him to fully submerge himself in) with, hopefully 🤞, a heat mat, in a top-opening 2ft viv 😒
It’s sadly really common for people to think this is suitable for their snakes entire life just because it was okay when it was a small baby, but it’s stunts their growth and is generally bad for their development and welfare. Corn snakes need a viv that they can fully stretch out in (4-5ft long) with a front/side opening glass door (so you’re not leering down on them from above as much, which reduce stress a lot), a heat lamp (with UV light for healthier scales and heat mat in winter, since cornies actually generally prefer a ground heat source), a digital thermometer and hygrometer to accurately measure temperature and humidity (25-30 degrees Celsius at hot end by the light/heat source, and 18-23C at the cooler end) at least two hides (one in the hot end of the viv and one at the cool end, both of which they should be able to properly hide completely in, plus a moist hide can be added to help when they’re shedding) a water bowl they can fully submerge in (so they can bathe when shedding if they want), an inch thick bedding (cornies love to burrow), some enrichment items/toys (mine has a long toilet roll and play ball 😅) and foliage / plants (fake or real both work, just something which helps hide them a bit while they are travelling above ground), in order to have a happy, healthy corn snake, who should live for 20+ years, so long as you keep up to date with care and habitat variety, like you would for any other pet 🤷♀️
Also, Soda was completely right about feeding frozen/thawed rather than live. Mice every 10-14 days for adults, occasionally a rat or chick for nutritional variety, but not regularly because they are fattier (chicks were described to me as like having a really nice dessert in a posh restaurant; every so often as a treat is alright, but not regularly, mine had a chicks head on Christmas Day, he didn’t want the body 😅) Some snakes prefer to eat in their viv to reduce stress of being moved, but others, like mine, prefer to be out in a separate empty, small box to avoid distractions ( I have to cover the box in a Towel and leave him with the mouse for an hour or so before returning him home 😅) But they shouldn’t be handled during or after feeding for three days at least and give them a good week or so when they are shedding (basically, when their eyes go blue, it’s time to leave them alone until a shed appears overnight).
i was always told its better to feed like because frozen takes out some more of the nutrients? when i feed live they go fast and all im just curious. but also mice will like kill some snakes so also that
@@DeathmasGraphics no, frozen thawed is better, more humane and more safe. they'll still get what they need. I think it just depends how long you wait till you feed it, like if you wait months..uh yeah it's gonna not be so edible anyways. feeding live is not only dangerous for both mouse and snake, but not really humane.
She's not right. She said feeding live has zero benefit for snakes and that's just not true. If that was the case, they would only eat dead animals in the wild, which they don't. Frozen animals lose nutrients once killed and frozen and continue to do so the longer they are frozen. Once I get a snake, I'm feeding live, that's what they're meant to eat and what they hunt naturally.
@@DeathmasGraphics there’s no substantial difference in nutritional value between frozen and live foods if frozen quickly after death and correctly. It is much more dangerous to feed live and it is stressful for both predator and prey. You can supplement some nutrients when needed but unless you feed them birds that also isn’t necessary (birds have less calcium than rodents). It’s also a lot cheaper, you can buy in bulk and keep the frozen prey for a year before the nutritional values starts to drop. Some snakes simply won’t switch but if they can f/t is much safer for all parties.
Just a little thing about heat mats, they aren’t actually effective in providing heat in a vivarium except directly above it. ‘Belly heat’ only exists in the wild as heat reflected off of rocks which is incredibly easy to imitate in captivity with a piece of slate and a heat lamp. Heat mats make it incredibly easy for the snake to burn itself as they cannot otherwise properly thermoregulate (either hot on the heat mat or cold elsewhere) as they do absolutely nothing for the ambient temperature. They are only actually effective in tubs which is a whole different can of worms. Some corn snakes also enjoy burrowing from time to time and heat mats are actually counterintuitive for that behavior, not only by needing thinner substrate but also reversing the impact of heat (as they go deeper, it should get cooler, not warmer unless it’s time to brumate… even then it shouldn’t get to the 70s+ F temperatures underground). I don’t blame you for using them, the reptile world is evolving at a rapid rate and a lot of sources and people cling to old practices. They’re really not ever necessary to use outside of tubs and emergencies.
I love these worm on the string. I had a ton as a kid. Best pet that you can give to a little child. 😂
“$400 free fish” haha I feel that. I adopted a mouse from a shelter, he was only like $8. But I’ve put so much money into spoiling him cause he’s my lil guy and he deserves it
Relatable I have a Pacman frog named Gaucho and a turtle named Shelly they have a better life then me.
Omg I thought the "400$ free fish mom" looked familiar! THAT'S FELICIA DAY. She plays Charlie in Supernatural!! Love her
I could be wrong but most sinks with that style of drain in the US have garbage disposals. I don't know if that particular sink does for sure but usually sinks that don't have the disposal attached have a much smaller drain or a grid over the drain. So the fish is most likely sitting in the garbage disposal until someone pulls it out or it dies from drying out or from the disposal being turned on. It's a really slow and awful way to kill your fish.
If this ever happens to you (and you should take every precaution to not let it happen in the first place) just reach your hand inside and grab the fish out. It might be injured but it can survive this happening. But not if you're too busy screaming, laughing or panicking to think to pull it out.
Also be sure to unplug the garage disposal first 😅
So the lady with the fish from the penguin game is Felicia Day and shes an actress that was on Supernatural 😂 she's awesome and probably did her best with the situation that the carnival gave her
Spot on with the snake one. If your snake is captive bred (which it should be) then it should already be eating frozen thawed before you get it
Not only that, but it was a corn snake. Those guys have voracious appetites; mine never misses a meal. Idk what they are doing to that poor snake to make it not want to eat, but it ain't good.
Something about my birds that I'm concerned about, is that my bird... (that was previously owned by an old crusty man)..... can wolf whistle
“You better not die butthead” -beavis
Hey Soda, could you please consider reacting to fish tanks on the show Tanked? I'm always wondering whether they are overstocking tanks and whether it is even possible to feed the fish or clean the tanks in their monster tanks. Would be happy to hear other no-nos like their tanks being in kid playrooms and tapped against or in a club with loud music.
I’m very late but used to watch that show a lot. every now and then I watch interviews with Brett… they usually came back and removed a lot of fish after filming I guess.. had a lot to do with more fish looking better for TV and as far as cleaning and feeding.. they recommend the people who bought their tanks to hire a maintenance team for it..because “if you can spend 100k on a fish tank, you can afford to pay someone to maintain it”
Let this be a lesson to everybody. I am a ball python owner whose ball python refuses to eat Frozen thawed rat anymore. She has refused eating them since 2017 and the summertime and since then I've pretty much had to feed her live rats from then on. And I can assure you that while I do this out of necessity and the decision was a very hard one to make. As I absolutely love rats and while I keep them in separate spaces I own five Rats of my own. And I absolutely adore them and I keep them far away from my ball python. But it is upsetting to bring home to rats every other week or so to feed her as it is stressful for both her and myself. I get stressed out because I know what they are capable of when rats are distressed. And I have heard of ball pythons consuming rat that they perceived as being dead the rat surviving and then eating its way out of your snake. So it's both stressful during and after the hunting process and her consuming her pray. So I do not take the action of feeding my ball python lightly. And the reason why I own five rats is to kind of be able to pay back all the love and affection that these other rodents wouldn't be able to experience having become my ball pythons food. So my baby is I give lots of attention and food and toys and treats
I think they just tried to make a "Fishermans funeral"with the hamster it ended up to be a poor execution but.....lol.we did that with our dogs ashes at his fav beach in France. but jaa ashes not a bodypaperbag I can't hahah
11:00 poor hamster, I wish people treated their hamsters as good as mine 😢
I love the mom who got that tank for the betta, we had a similar situation with my turtle got him for $8 from an expo when I was 7 for my birthday the same “I can’t say no” we now have $400+ in care for him he turned 10 this year I love him so much
My roommate currently has one of those small fish tanks for her betta fish (it's like a 1 gallon tank). She does a full water change once a week, sometimes she waits a week and a half to actually change the water. I feel so bad for her fish, but I can't convince her to get a bigger tank since she has nowhere to put a bigger tank. (She originally bought the fish as an impulse buy when she was shopping with one of her friends at Petco)
I love the fact the Mom went through the effort of giving the fish a damn good living situation, and then called it a butthead
it was satire
@@wompwompwompwompwompwompalienz Oh yeah. I know, doesn't stop it from being funny
@@idiotically-everything lmao
Felicia Day who had the nice beta tank with the free beta is a popular American actress. She was on Supernatural.
For the kids fair one, I was SO worried that they were throwing rings around ACTUAL penguins, and the prize was that you get the penguin
Not finished with the video but honestly I've seen the video where the mom helped her kid with the fish and that's why I still love Felicia Day
5:26 Felicia Day!!!! Loved her in super natural, the guild, and Dr. Horrible!
Don’t forget Eureka!
I didn't expect to see Felicia Day in this video! Happy to see shes doing well
I love that you immediately followed horrible parenting with wholesome parenting
With the hamster... funeral, I'm guessing the mom started screaming that cause the kid looked like they were about to bolt down the cliff (to put the hamster into the water), which would've been dangerous. So like telling them it'll get there. Probably not the best reaction though XD
8:33 i love her reaction to that kid's comment
At one of the fairs I went to with the fish as prizes, instead of fish they were giving away turtles and iguanas!! arguably even worse considering the vendor giving them away kept insisting they would only grow to the size of their container
At 4:23 that's Felicia Day, an actress I know from Supernatural. I was NOT expecting to see her in one of these videos lmao, but she seems exactly like the type of person to spend $400 dollars just to make sure a fish has a good life
ikr i fully sat up amd said "is that charlie!?" as soon as i saw her 😭
the bird with the hamster is actually a green cheeked conure, I own three of them and they might be absolute maniacs but they wouldnt do that unless trained!
That hamster is the reason the rule "DON'T SHAKE A BABY" exists please hammys are like babies :(
On that vid with the cats watching the fake fish.. It would take a LOT of effort for one of those cats to choke on that fish XD They'd first try to bite it, and probably realize it's too hard to chew, so they'd most likely just leave it alone after that. For a cat to choke on it, they'd have to break off a sizeable piece or.. for some reason, attempt to swallow it whole. (Which most cats are smart enough to not do with something THAT big) It was a decently sized fish and I've seen smaller, more choke hazard looking kong toys for _dogs.._ There was nothing wrong with that fish toy for those cats.
I always feel concerned when there’s new content on this. Can’t believe people would still resort to violence for views. May they get the help they need. Thank you for always spreading awareness as you can. Amen. 💔❤️🙏
P.S. Props to those who are willing to educate themselves on animal care for improvement though. ❤
I used to keep beta fish in a tiny tank just like the first one and I will always feel guilty for that even though I was a kid and wasn’t taught any better by any of the adults who let me take those fish home. I didn’t know they could be aggressive with each other until I had the tank so I just bought a divider so each fish had hardly any room to move. They were probably miserable.
I had a fish go down the sink for pure stupidity. Fortunately my fiance got his tools took the pipe apart and gave me back my fish and he was alright.
That hamster in wheel thing probably end up with star gazing disorder after all that stress
What is star gazing disorder?
@@Home_of_Heartes stargazing is conditon that can happen if hamster has been dropped or injured. It’s sorta of brain damaged and the hamster will often look up has it walking or have no sense of balance x
@@FawnberryRewritten Ah. thank you for explaining!
A few years ago I had won a goldfish from the fair and bought a few more from the pet store and they lived 4-5 years, and then like we went to the same fair a few years later and someone got handed a free fish card and I heard them behind me say "goldfish only last a few days" and I kinda got mad because that only happened if they are sick or they don't have the right stuff for them because you can't just put them in a fish bowl and only feed them they need a big tank and the right filtration and stuff.
Finally!!! Someone who hates this frickin bird hamster video too
I got hate for pointing out that this is cruel and not funny
I def agree with you on frozen being safer and more humane, unfortunately at the store I work at we have some ball pythons who will just not eat frozen 🥲 even giving the mouse a lil wiggle or coating my hands with rodent smell prior from our live mice or pet hamsters up front doesn't entice them. So i tell people "try frozen first but if that doesn't work, a fed snake is better than an unfed one" and ofc giving them the lil spiel about removing uneaten prey as well as tips for getting the frozen rodent to seem more enticing... but some snakes are just like that unfortunately.
The removal of live prey also applies to insect food for other reptiles, amphibians and inverts.
some snakes just are completely offed by frozen );
When you started laughing at the hamster funeral....I could not stop laughing too. Who thought about that idea???? I hope that mean mother gets the same funeral....the kids can thrown her coffin off a cliff lol.
Or urn
Good news! You can (in certain places) get buried at sea, so she could get her coffin thrown into the ocean and it'd be perfectly legal!
This brings a whole new meaning for the word coffin drop
lol I"m still laughing 5:18 where the fish looks like it's nodding like "yup hi"
At 14:39 my snake did the same thing a while back.
I feed live because it is easier both cost wise and other stuff too, since she refuses thawed and frozen. Its also a personal preference for myself to feed live, one time I passed out while the feeding was going live and the mouse ended up eating a large chunk of her tail off. She lived and shes healed now but I never let my rats stay in the cage for more than an hour anymore
years ago I went to a camp that had a ball python that we kept for some time (I don't remember details, I was like, 7 or something) but they had us feeding live, and I guess they didn't say anything about taking the mouse out if the snake doesn't eat it, because that snake ended up dead and partially eaten by the mouse, which no one in my family could have fathomed would ever happen
i hate whenever people try to educate on how somethint can be harmful to the animal, and they just brush it off and say its no big deal ..
The First one was Bad ass!
Dude this video has started off so well. First 2 tiktoks beautiful, love yo see it.
I was looking up pictures of betta fish (they’re so pretty) I found a small orb. It’s supposed to be a hanging fish tank. It’s like x3 the size of the betta. And of course, it’s from SHEIN. (The abt the size of a Christmas ornament.)
The hamster “funeral”… That wasn’t a funeral, that was getting rid of a body 💀
I used to remove my betta from the tank if I was doing large water changes, because the movement of my hands and tools coming in and out of the tank and the water levels dropping etc. stressed him out way worse than being put aside in a bowl in a quiet area for a few minutes. He would stress out so badly when I cleaned the tank with him in there he would turn grey and lose all his color from stress. So, sometimes you just do things the way your fish is happiest. Nothing wrong with that.
10:26 they shouldve just get one of those small fake hampster decor things instead of a real one
My goodness I never feel like your videos are long enough! I totally understand why you might not do longer videos a lot, it can be very taxing I'm sure. I just wanted to let you know I really enjoy your content! You have a very nice voice to listen to!
I hope anyone reading this has a good day!
13:37 THEY COULDN'T HAVE PUT A STRAINER OR A PLUG IN THE SINK?!
Like, I have a 60 L tank and a prehaps under 10 L that I use like for baby fish back when I first started out which I do now have a bigger isolation tank though which is around 20 L or so but I've just been using that for water changes and just make sure there are no fish in there before I put it in the bucket for cleaning the filter and the fake moss rock tunnel.
What happened here was easily preventable, and these people just wearn't thinking. Clearly.
The weirdest thing about the hamster funeral video is that isn't even a cliff! they're just kinda standing on a bit of a hill at the edge of a beach aiming for the sea. They could have EASILY climbed down, retrieved the hamster bag and thrown it into the sea from nearer to the sea but the mum was freaking out that if they got any near they were gonna get washed away by the sea lmao?
In that video with the hamster and parrot they use Трава у дома, one of the most beautiful soviet songs ever made. It upsets me so much, hearing it being used for background music in an animal abuse video.
Oh dear. Honestly I feel so bad for the poor hamster. And I love hampsters
10:26 that’s a conure. Also I feel bad for theses animals.
When I was a kid we lived in Tokyo. People used to give away free goldfish for the emperor’s birthday. Like the mother at the fiat we ended having to buy a load of stuff to keep them alive. They were cool fish though, including some black ones with their eyes out on stalks
10:22 the bird is a green cheek conure! I have one with almost the same colors ❤ they’re insanely smart and that means someone trained him/her to do that to the hamster 😢
God, the way that mom yelled at her kid gave me the chills.
The way the mom just told her kid that she "blew it" (f*cked up) and then yelled at them afterwards. Wtf.
for the worm on a string thing, sometimes you're jus really tired and it takes a second for you're brain to catch up.
Oh my god thats so cruel that they dont show you what the carnival prize is until you win it DX
Just “here you go! *You have to take the fish now!* Enjoy the care costs! 😁”
0:00 I was actually talking about my betta fish, and then this popped up
u brought me back to when i was litterally 9 watching lps popular im 18 now that shit was crazy
As a snake owner...that snake/mouse video pissed me off...so much
That is so messed up tbh. It's stressful for both animals and is also DANGEROUS for both animals... Why can't people just educate themselves properly and take care of their dang animals ;_;
The bird with the hamster is actually a green cheek conure that appears to be a pineapple color mutation but I’m not 100% positive on that but I’m glad I learned a lot about fish
ooou the one with the betta from the fair is an actor from supernatural! she played charlie and i was so woried how this was gonna go lol
When I was little, I really wanted small animals… so my parents got me toy versions. I had a few Zhu Zhu Pets, a robo-fish, and a robotic hermit crab toy I can’t quite remember the name of. Parents really have no excuse buying pets they’re not prepared to care for when you can just buy your child a little toy version that still makes noise, runs in an enclosure, and can be played with.
That first video was cool, but that tank looked like a fair bit of expense went into it. Which obviously is great if you can, but not everyone can.
What I'd love is a no-nonsense video showing what the basic requirements are for a beta (as in "if you can't meet these thresholds, do not get a fish"), with costings so that someone just getting into it can know how much at minimum they must spend in order to do it properly. I think that would be a really helpful thing for responsible would-be owners to decide if this is something they can do and how much they need to set aside at minimum in order to do it right.
In regards to the mouse and the snake, it always irritates me when I see stuff like this. I know a guy who got the bright idea to feed his snake a live shrew he caught. He then went outside to do something else. When he returned back, he had a half eaten snake-carcass and a very full shrew in the tank. He never fed live animals to his reptiles again, nor wild-caught ones for that matter.
He did however let the Shrew eat the rest of the snake before letting it go, his reasoning was that as that it would be a shame to waste the dead snake. He is a bit of a weird guy, but has mellowed out over the past decade or so and become a more responsible pet-keeper.
Wait the shrew ate the snake? Dang
13:50 never knew fire alarms could abuse fish, you learn something new every day i guess.
Very nice of soda to start us off with some nice ones- destroy small tanks, let cats play with robo fishies-
And then to chuck us off a cliff.
3:26 That Tictoc was more of a pet disposal then a funeral.
Cornsnakes will literally eat golfballs if they look tasty enough so that snake definitely can eat frozen/thawed mice. I'm convinced the only people who feed their common pet trade snakes live mice do it for fun, 100%. I worked at a reptile zoo and even they didn't feed their snakes live food.
5:26 hold up is that Charlie Bradbury from Supernatural?
I got made fun of by a guy because I give my snake fresh killed mice instead of letting my snake kill them himself, and now I feel quite vindicated.