I Am The Sea And Nobody Owns Me

Nah dude idk what youre talking about. These are totally ethical procedures for breeding animals.

Nobody with half a brain thinks this is immoral.

Afterall, what kind of animal needs to fulfill all of its natural behaviors when you can only fulfil 2 for its entire life: hibernating and breeding. They only really need enough space to eat and mate. This is a perfect tub size for a single adult snake.

Who cares about building balance and musculature. Who cares about maintaining good body condition. Who cares about being able to lift your head more than 2 inches? Who cares about allowing your animal to stretch out its full length?

Nah no problems here.

/sarcasm

Image stolen.

It’s really not hard to tell that these snakes aren’t fine, if you look into the research on the necessity of enrichment in all animals (including all reptiles, amphibians, even fish) and compare the behaviors of snakes kept in these abysmal conditions to snakes kept in enriched conditions. I’m no expert in reading ball python body condition but these snakes both appear overweight (as is common in captivity) and I can guarantee you they have poor muscle tone because they can barely move at all in their living space.

If any other animal was kept in conditions like this there would be outcry. If you [general you] went to a zoo and saw a lion in a barren cage with only enough room to turn around you would be outraged. If you went to a zoo and saw a snake curled up in a box like this you’d be outraged. Anyone who keeps animals should value their animals’ welfare and quality of life over the space they take up. That’s an awful reason to justify cruelty.