Sadly there are quite a few of these videos on youtube (most of them filmed by Americans funnily enough) and they make me very angry and quite upset. Some twat has a video of feeding a live mouse to his piranha (which he brought from a pet store.)
There also another prick who feeds a Hamster to his Tegu. Interestingly enough, the hamster bites the Tegus. Some else feed a gecko to their breaded dragon and there are other videos.

Frankly I find it appalling behaviour and I also feel it gives us Reptiles and Exotic pet owners a bad names. Can someone please these callous f***** and put them through a world unimaginable pain?

Piranha Video below, I believe there is another one floating around on the site.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWzUQ8lp3M

Whilst all of these vidoes are negative, there are some good folk on youtube and it'd be a shame if y'all went off it cos of the minority.

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No one is saying we should have youtube closed down. But we have a responsibility to shame these cruel individuals, minority or not. There is no reason for these crimes (and they are crimes) against animals. You’re absolutely right, there are plenty of videos showing owners with their reptiles and showing us their quirky and beautifully intriguing behaviour (funnily enough most of those owners tend to be British or European.)

But the point is videos like that shouldn’t be put up, it is revolting and despicable. I admit my bellicose words in the previous post (riddled with spelling mistakes and missing words as it was) was bit unneeded, but frankly this is something that really pisses me off.

I agree with the jist of what you are saying Glaurung, these people should clearly be prosecuted!

incidentally, why do I know your username? i've heard it before somewhere.....

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Glaurung is one of J.R.R. Tolkien's dragons. He was first mentioned I believe in the Silmarillion and then again in the most recent book, the Childern of Hurin. Smaug was already taken.

So it is, what a difficult book to read that was...

anyhoo

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