Can vegans have snakes as pets?!

Each person has there own way of living, and needs to make their own choices. I personally think owning animals like snakes, birds, sugar gliders, etc would be a bit hypocritical, as these animals are not domesticated, and their true environment cannot be accurately reproduced in captivity(or at least in a home environment).

Its not the food requirement that is anti-vegan(as snakes need to eat certain foods to survive), it is the way they must be kept.

On an added note, snakes can be fed pre-killed prey. These animals are often sold frozen, thawed by the snake owner, and then placed in front of the snake. This method is also safer than, as live rodents have the potential to cause injury to a snake.

I thought vegans or at least some of them anyway, are against any kind of animal "exploitation" whatsoever. So I wonder if it is very hypocritical for a vegan to get a snake, or any other animal for that matter, as a pet when the only apparent purpose is to use the animal for your amusement. What's the difference between that and a zoo or a circus, two "exploitative" human practices that vegans vehemently oppose?

Personally I don't care if you get a snake a rat an elephant a tiger or an amoeba as a pet. I just find it funny that you cannot seem to do anything without getting a consensus or approval from other vegans.

The only animals that should be adopted into your care are animals that are domesticated, and unable to survive well on their own. Snakes are wild animals that can take care of themselves, and that's where they should be. If you want to see snakes, you can go look at them in nature, rather than feeling the need to possess one and keep it captive.

Vegans shouldn't own pets. If you think animals are not ours to eat, why is it ok to keep one shut up in a cage for your own enjoyment?

If you think it's wrong to kill cows for me to eat, why is it ok to kill mice for your snake to eat? (Yeah, I know you won't actually kill the mice, but I don't actually kill the cow either.)

Obviously if the snake were loose in the wild, he'd kill other animals to eat, but you're supporting the same pet breeding industry as if you bought a puppy from a "puppy mill." And we know how awful that is, right?

Its your choice. But I can't imagine having a snake and putting a defenseless mouse or rabbit with no chance of escaping in its tank to be eaten . I understand in the wild its only natural to hunt to survive. But when YOU feed it live animals, the animals really have no chance to escape or anything.

Every single life from on this planet exists at the expense of another life form. If you took this out of the equation all life would die. In order for something to live, something has to die. Its how the world works whether you like it or not. This is why I think vegans are silly, they deny what they are and how the world works.

Snakes MUST eat mice, it is natural for them, they are carnivores, there are no morals for the snake! It's NOT anti vegan for you to own a snake and feed it mice, just make sure you get the mice from a humane source :) And if you give it frozen mice its probably more humane for the mouse itself

Hun, a LOT of animals eat other animals.

Which is why its laughable that some vegans/vegetarians believe its wrong to eat meat when the animals themselves do it and they don't think THAT is wrong. lol

You aren't eating the snake, so no, it's not wrong at all.

there's no law that says vegans cant! plus, your not the one eating it, and you don't have to watch your snake eat it. I love snakes, well i love all animals, i always have, anyway, if you can and know how to care for a snake than get one. Just make sure its in the right living conditions!

Keeping a snake and feeding it animals is definitely anti-vegan.
If you must have a snake, the least you could do is teach it to eat vegan foods!

a vegan is you eating veggies and stuff, not not watching another animal eat a non vegan thing....

No, No, go ahead and get a snake! Your not eating it, so it doesn't really matter. I love snakes there pretty cool! You should definetly get one!

No its not you eating the other animals :)

You're not eating it so yeah.

Well you're not the one eating the mice. Though if you do feed the snake yourself, to some people it could be considered anti-vegan. it's just one of those things like eating honey. but if you're not feeding the snake you'd be fine, after all vegans own cats and dogs and they hunt mice and rabbits and birds.