Animal rights and inverts, and actually doing something about it.

[TheMetaphysicalNinja]

hiya all. I've been seeing loads of threads about "I saw this on youtube"

Invert fights.

I know I'm not the only one who feel they do not deserve this kind of treatment. I know they are used for food for other animals, but that doesn't mean we can use them for entertainment like that surely?

As another member put it on the most recent "I saw this" Thread, unnecessary suffering.

As I said on the other thread, if we were to put a angry bull (theroretical situation) and a pig in a pen and force a fight, animal rights would be up in arms about it. Even though after we could kill and eat the animals. So why is it ok to do exactly the same thing with inverts, forced fight and (theoretically) feed to a reptile?

So we're clear, I keep insectivorous reps, and I keep inverts. However all my inverts, including the livefood, is kept in the best conditions I can provide for them. And they do not suffer more than they really have to. If they aren't eaten, they are returned to the colonies and not fed off again (yes I can tell them appart) My roach colony's getting a housing upgrade soon cuz it's growing lol. And I do have a pet Locust. He's called joe.


Anyway, I'm going to contact the RSPCA and get their stance on bug fights like this. And find out what it will take to change it. I'll post their email for anyone else and their replies assuming I have permiossion to do so.

If anyone has any suggestions for things I should include/they would like to see included please let me know (PM or post!) I'll update as I get info.

If it comes to something like a petition, how many of us invert fans would sign? Personally I'd hope we all would.

[HalcyonInverts]

what always gets me is the way they use inverts on 'im a celebrity'...

Dosnt set a good example for the idiotic masses who watch it...

[TheMetaphysicalNinja]

Yes! exactly what I mean. Hadn't thought of that one though. Saw a add for it... pouring hissers ( i think) over someone and stepping on them. Why? How is that fair? what did they do to deserve that?

[_TiMiSdRuNk_]

No i agree, they sem to use them as entertainment props rather than allowing them to be animals! Imagine the uproar if they used a cat or something like that on the show the same way they do with inverts!

[HalcyonInverts]

i know its not inverts, but the worst abuse i saw on that show was a few years ago, when they dumped a tank full of eels onto the ground after the game, and left them exposed to air, wriggling around in the leaf litter.

I know eels can survive exposed for some time, but come on?! wudnt have taken much to look after them properly...

[TheMetaphysicalNinja]

hadn't seen that. that's sick. It doesn't matter if they can survive, why should they have to? We are keeping them in captivity by force, they didnt choose it, so we should give them the respect the deserve. Even a snail which is forced into captivity deserves our respect. not mistreatment and clear abuse.

[_TiMiSdRuNk_]

Nah unfortunatly they don't look at certain animals like fish or inverts in the same way as say a dog or a cat. Maybe someone should start a petition up and try to get these shows to stop

[Ozgi]

I was flicking channels earlier and one of them had to put a live spider in his mouth, keep it there for 30 seconds then spit it out on to the floor. That programme is shocking! But nobody cares.

[HalcyonInverts]

what worries me, is that they claim to have an 'on-site vet' overseeing animal welfare... Who reckons its Ant/Dec in a lab coat with a badly fitting wig?

[TheMetaphysicalNinja]

Well some people do. And often it only takes one to get the ball rolling. This time that one's me. I'm writing the RSPCA a very long email right now. thanks for all the exaples, their being used!

And if a petition did come up, who'd sign?