Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
more complex nervous system? larger brain?
when it all comes down to it, it was completely unecessary.
Or is it because you can more easily identify with the mouse's suffering instead of the crickets?
Something as foreign as a cricket is really hard to sympathize with, even when eaten by something as grotesque as the spider. However, when a mouse is used as food, it changes things... would you feel the same way about a mouse eating a spider, if it were to happen?
So in reality, it's really not about the mouse's larger more complex brain, or even the necessity of it (spiders DO have to eat), it's all about how it makes
you feel - uncomfortable.
And for the practicality of it all, the mouse was sold at a pet store for the specific purpose of food. If it were not my spider, it would have been another creature the mouse was fed to.