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Humane Euthanization?

Looks like the butter knife trick until I get the CO2 chamber.

I guess the big part is just not thinking of it as your pet. People who own beef farms have to be the same way, can't make it your pet or allow yourself to become attached. I think it's easier to talk about that though, than do it. I do expect it to be a real challenge for me. :( But I will try very very hard.
 
I breed my own mice and the pinkies go straight into the freezer but anything bigger once it starts getting bigger gets co2, when you have quite a few to kill at a time its quicker and easier (for me anyway) to just put them in the tub and slowly let in the gas then its off to the freezer. I must admit I do find fuzzies take longer to die.
 
I got into cO2 for not a lot of money.
Barebones, a remote coil (Search for it on ebay, about $20)
Get a new 20 oz. CO2 tank, as they are only good for a few years until you have to hydro-test them. $20-25
Find a place to fill the tank. Tank fills for a 20 oz tank are $4 in my area.
That's $50, total.
If you need to gas one or 2 mice, just put them in a ziplock bag, and crack the valve open for a second with the end going into the bag.
It will look bad as you can't really let the co2 build up slowly like in a chamber.
But it will be better than feeding them to a snake live.
Once you find an ideal chamber, keep trying new things until you get it down.
 
Yeah, rats are quite intelligent little critters. More so then the snakes. All that co2 business sounds like a project.. but I guess that comes w/the territory of owning a snake. I'll f/t it for now, I have 3 corns and 1 boa that take f/t w/out any problems. One of my corns is so docile, she doesn't strike or coil, she simply nonchalantly opens her mouth and starts to eat her food.
 
Em, I just had my female mouse have her first litter last night! I quickly separated the male, and after a few hours, pulled the momma out just long enough to grab 5 pinkies to weigh/freeze...she had 11, 2 gram pinkies! I pulled out 5 because my little corn regurged a 3 gram, so I pulled them when they were still only 2. I had little bitty ziplock bags, and freezed the pinkies. It was very quick...and I imagine no different than a human freezing to death? Not really painful...it didn't take long for the pinkie's body temp. to drop and then they just die. (It really is much much easier if you can just look at them as snake food) I am letting the other six grow up...when they are hoppers I will pull out all but one female. That female will be my second breeder female, and the other 5 hoppers will be put down some how and frozen for my BP. It was easy and very quick to freeze the pinkies....but now that I have read through this thread, I will probably do the butter knife/tail yank for the hoppers...

Thanks for posting a great thread and asking a question I was going to post soon :)

-Josh
 
Um yeah. Putting them in the freezer is NOT considered a humane way to euthanize MICE, but I have heard it is all right to euthanize a hatchling in this way if it is first placed in the fridge. Though that method seems to be controversial from what I have heard.

At any rate, I don't know. The freezer might be somewhat exceptable for pinkies and perhaps even fuzzies, but anything large than that I really don't think so. :shrugs:
 
Yeah, my girl will take a f/t right from my hand, then I just put her on the floor and she has no prob eating right there in front of me as I walk around the room. I know the constricting is good for her muscles but I handle her rather often so she does get in a good amount of excersize.

Em, why would anyone euthanize a hatchling in the freezer?
 
Maybe I am just heartless...but if the most inhumane thing I ever do is cause a pinkie "pain" by freezing it...then I can still rest easy at night...can't be any more painful than being eaten alive.
 
Due to sickness, defect, refusing to eat.... Using CO2 for reptiles is not an option, whereas placing them in the fridge (to induce coma) and then the freezer is the more prefered method if you're doing it at your home.

I'll have to dig up some threads.
 
I absolutely loathe the idea of euthanizing a baby snake due to a kink it's tail, or it refusung to eat. I think it's appauling. I'd rather see the little guy set free in your backyard.
 
Set free in your backyard? :eek:

You do realize that if this were to be done cornsnakes would start to become a problem and it could very well cause problems for snake keepers. We're already under scrutiny, people just releasing their snakes to the wild and creating an over population or something is NOT the way to go.

I don't really think a small kink should matter much (this is not the thread to debate that in), however what about a severe kink? What if the snake is obviously refusing to feed and is close to death? Is starving or dying of a severe kink better than putting it down? I think not.

If an animal is suffering "setting them free in your backyard" is not going to ease that. Euthanization isn't something we enjoy, but it IS a necessity. An old dog or cat that no longer has control of their bowels, doesn't have any teeth, and is suffering from joint pain, diabeties, etc would be better off being euthanized. Don't you think?
 
Also if the animal is that sick it would be prey in the wild and not survive anyway. Letting any animal suffer is mean freezing it to put it out of its misery is much better.
 
If I had a snake that was refusing to eat to the point where it was on the edge of death. I would leave it up to the the snake, as silly as that may sound. I'd leave a mouse in there with him. That way, the balls in his court.

I see humans deciding upon euthanization as an unnatural approach. It's interfering with nature's most basic response to the end of life. BUT, I do believe that, where there's life, there's hope. And I just don't believe that's up tp you or me to decide.
 
You may want to rethink that statement. If a snake is refusing to feed and close to death leaving it with food would add more stress to the end of its life. I know euthenization is a personal thing and i will leave it at that, but its not for you to decide that for someone else either.
 
Also if the animal is that sick it would be prey in the wild and not survive anyway. Letting any animal suffer is mean freezing it to put it out of its misery is much better.

Yes, Danielle, putting it in the wild it may very well become pray to another animal, but itmay NOT. It may eat, become strong and survive. Either way, humans wouldn't be the one's deciding it's fate. What ever happens to the animal would be more natural then putting it next to your frozen peas.
 
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