Show Live Food No Longer Gi Given en Captive Snakes In order older to satisfy numerous readers readers readers read read- ers who protested against feeding the snakes live pigeons nt at the zoo the Post Dispatch arranged e for a visit by Its reporter at f feeding time The reptiles are no longer given any anything tiling actually alive e for food oo Actuated Actu Actu- cited b by a to meet the objections of humane persons to this method of ot feeding the goo po oo authorities corresponded corre ed with ith the New York zoo curator curator cura cum tc tor r who sai said that freshly killed food could coul be substituted for liv living creatures creatures crea crea- tures S If the time substitution were done with ith skill and understanding meaning mean mean- lab ing no doubt If the serpents could be fooled into the belief bellef that lint what was offered was still alive alI This is done u by dangling the stunned or 0 killed kille rabbit or bird before fore the hungry snake He tie has to be hungry however some snakes being able to go without food for weeks or months So we still fee feed the horrid horrI reptiles as so many women wom-cn delight in calling them although from the records of zoological gardens they are alC the most popular denizens denizen's of these places But nut we kill kiJI theIr food for them We assum assume assume as as- sume sum th The built lIH If if there be any of ot shedding shed Innocent blood i An easy matter UlO for the lor lords s of creation who slaughter lter cr c everything thing including each St. St Louis Post other St St. tea i ur J 1 |