Sure thing! The basic idea is that scales are really important to how a snake functions, and when you mess with that, you tamper with the snake’s ability to be a snake.
Scaleless rat/cornsnakes are unethical but they’re not, like, the worst thing ever. The snake will still have belly scutes but lack scales on their backs and sides. The main issues a scaleless rat/corn will suffer from are:
Mobility issues caused by the lack of scales along the sides. Snake movement is complex and involves muscles attached to the belly and side scales, so without side scales, they’re clumsy and have issues holding on to things
Shedding issues
Increased risk of injury - snake skin really isn’t meant to just be exposed
Unethical! But it could be worse.
Scaleless ball pythons are such an unethical morph I consider breeding them to be animal abuse, full-stop. The scaleless morph in ball pythons is more extreme than rat/corns, and also involves the loss of belly scales.
Along with the issues scaleless rat/corns deal with, scaleless ball pythons also suffer through:
Even worse mobility issues due to the lack of belly scales, which are the most important when it comes to mobility
Belly sores - that’s a load-bearing part of the body that’s now unprotected
Massive, massive difficulty eating. Ball pythons have heat pits on their lips to detect infrared signatures, and that’s what they rely on to eat. These pits are set into the scales, and the scaleless morph doesn’t know what to do with them so they’re just gone. Scaleless bps are left not being able to use the way they’ve evolved to hunt and find food.
There’s a reason you can’t find any scaleless ball pythons who are full-grown.
Because of all these issues, I consider it unethical to breed scaleless snakes, and I strongly recommend avoiding buying from anyone who breeds them.
capitalism is a failure of a system and need to be completely abolished
>store says they’re hiring
>50 people apply
>30 don’t hear back from them
>19 get told they “don’t meet the qualifications”
>one single person gets hired
>store gives them way to much work for one person
>new employee says that they need to hire more people
>“what are you talking about? we have enough people working in your department”
>but no you actually don’t. you have one single person working at a time. I only work mornings, every single morning. other guy only works afternoons, every single afternoon. what happens when one of us is sick?
>also, what if I’m busy with something else like stocking, and a customer needs my help? what then? you’re asking me to work five people’s jobs at once. so either pay me five times my salary or hire four other people
>“no. you’re fired”
mfw
>go to that store later to buy something
>no one is working at the department I worked at
>end up waiting 40 minutes to buy something
>don’t blame the cashier. he was pulled away to do something else. it’s the bosses fault for not hiring more people
>as I leave there are “we’re hiring” signs plastered all over the door
i cannot stress this enough: if your reasoning for clowning on the mcu is “they overwork their cg artists and animators” i 1000% guarantee that a show or movie you have been stanning for years also abused their artists and you just haven’t heard about it because the production companies aren’t in the spotlight like mcu productions are. that cartoon for kids? that incredibly animated movie? that non-marvel superhero movie? i’ve seen people declare their hatred for the way the mcu treats their workers and then turn around and gush about a show that i know for a fact was hell for the artists attached
and no this is NOT me saying “this means you should stop hating on the mcu uwu” it’s me saying you gotta be aware that this shit is an INDUSTRY WIDE PROBLEM. you CANNOT “fix” it by refusing to watch mcu movies and feeling good about it. you have to be aware that it’s EVERYWHERE. why do you think so many animation and vfx productions are sourced in canada? in india and the phillipines? we are not unionized.
i know it’s hard to face the idea that your favourite show might have been made unethically especially when you’ve spent so much time hating the mcu for doing the same thing. you don’t have to start hating your favourite show. just like…be aware. don’t be smarmy about it. don’t claim without research that a beautifully animated movie Must mean the animators were not working 16 hour days and weekends. i do think we can fix this 👍 but we can’t fix it if 90% of us don’t even realize what the problem really is
now that it’s come out that the spiderverse animators were working unsustainable hours yall need to be aware of this more than ever. even good movies aren’t innocent of this. we often see the narrative of “see what happens if you pay animators well and give them time to work?” when it comes to good movies but. that is almost never the case. the artists are still being worked to the bone. the movie being good does not negate this.
