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My snake was adopted from a previous owner. I wonder if for the greater good it would be more humane to painlessly kill my snake rather than buy frozen mice from the petstores in my area.
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Your heart's in the right place, but it's possible that you haven't thought this through enough before taking the snake on, and you're now over-thinking the wrong things. I may be wrong, but you don't give the impression of someone with a lot of snake-keeping experience. Do you have the basic husbandry aspects right?This is a more immdiate concern than getting in an ethical tangle over food sourcing. You can always come back to that.
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I just wonder what kind of life the frozen mice have had before being purchased.
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Breed your own mice - that way you could be absolutely sure that they'd had a decent life and a quiet, peaceful end (CO2 chamber at home)
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I don't like supporting petstores that sell animals.
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Breeding your own mice would resolve this concern as well.
If breeding and despatching your own mice truly worries you and buying them presents an ethical problem, then you may be better off rehoming the snake to someone else.