corn_breeder
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hmmmm
well i gues it is true
well i gues it is true
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OMG, I can't do it...
- Thread starter danigurrl
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diamondlil
Mice! They taste so nice!
pinched?
I am a novice in keeping snakes, but as far as I know they only bite in defense if they are scared or as a feeding mistake, so how is 'pinching' them a good idea? It sounds cruel and unnecessary to me, imo
I am a novice in keeping snakes, but as far as I know they only bite in defense if they are scared or as a feeding mistake, so how is 'pinching' them a good idea? It sounds cruel and unnecessary to me, imo
corn_breeder
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true
well i didn't really inch hard. but i was over reacting since it really hurt and it was my first time bite.
well i didn't really inch hard. but i was over reacting since it really hurt and it was my first time bite.
danigurrl
Kahn's Mommy
Thanks to everyone for hijacking my thread! j/p, lol, it gives me something to read.
Anyway...That link that was posted on page 3 (I forgot by whome now that I've read through 5 pages of stuff) was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you so much!! Dry ice is not easily available around here because you need a special license to sell it (I work at a grocery store and I asked my boss if we sold it.) I called a few other places and no one had it, so getting DI would be an inconvenience, I'd have to drive 20 minutes or further just to find it. But the baking soda and vinegar...well I have that right in my kitchen! I just used that to euthanize 4 fuzzies. I feel guilt-free because they just peacefully went to sleep. It wasn't painful and I didn't have to whack them against a wall.
I did a live feeding of a fuzzy yesterday to Kahn and I cried. haha. My boyfriend had to hug me. I could hear the little guy squeak!! I don't think Kahn knew what he was doing. I figured he'd kill the mouse quickly but he was toying with it!! He constricted...but the mouse was alive the entire time. I kept glancing over (its like a car crash....u have to look) and the little guy was struggling almost all the way down. I was very emotional.
Anyway...That link that was posted on page 3 (I forgot by whome now that I've read through 5 pages of stuff) was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you so much!! Dry ice is not easily available around here because you need a special license to sell it (I work at a grocery store and I asked my boss if we sold it.) I called a few other places and no one had it, so getting DI would be an inconvenience, I'd have to drive 20 minutes or further just to find it. But the baking soda and vinegar...well I have that right in my kitchen! I just used that to euthanize 4 fuzzies. I feel guilt-free because they just peacefully went to sleep. It wasn't painful and I didn't have to whack them against a wall.
I did a live feeding of a fuzzy yesterday to Kahn and I cried. haha. My boyfriend had to hug me. I could hear the little guy squeak!! I don't think Kahn knew what he was doing. I figured he'd kill the mouse quickly but he was toying with it!! He constricted...but the mouse was alive the entire time. I kept glancing over (its like a car crash....u have to look) and the little guy was struggling almost all the way down. I was very emotional.
diamondlil
Mice! They taste so nice!
sorry
didn't mean to hijack, was just a reaction. I'm waiting for my mice to start producing, which is why I was reading your thread. Glad it went well, looks like I'll be trying that method too.
didn't mean to hijack, was just a reaction. I'm waiting for my mice to start producing, which is why I was reading your thread. Glad it went well, looks like I'll be trying that method too.
MightyNutteR
New member
Back on topic,
I just flick pinkies or fuzzies in the head, kinda hard. and i wack bigger ones on the edge of the table or wack them off the wall. great fun.
I just flick pinkies or fuzzies in the head, kinda hard. and i wack bigger ones on the edge of the table or wack them off the wall. great fun.
serpentalley
Mirage, motley snow corn.
danigurrl said:
I am "glad" to see that it worked for you. Although I haven't tried it yet on my own rodents, I feel very confident in following the directions in the link. Plus, it also parallels alot of information given by members in some of the threads in this forum regarding c02 euthanasia.
Did you use the plastic bag method for your fuzzies? That seems like the quicker way I'd do it, until I can build the "chamber".
Becky
Poop Scene Investigator
I euthanize mice by placing them in a zip-lock baggie and using canned air(Fellowes Air Duster to be exact). Some canned air actually contains ether, which we all know can put you to sleep or kill you(usually the latter). It has a sedative effect and slows down their breathing quite considerably, and since the canned air is carbon dioxide, it works very well. I put an entire litter of fuzzies down this way and it was very peaceful, no struggling, as I hate "whacking them" or having them suffer unnecessarily. It's just better for all of us.
Gee... I think wacking them is effective but cruel... I mean gee u got to be very cold blooded to just wack a tiny mouse on a table... I'm not into feeding snakes yet, next week I'll hopefully be feeding my first snake, but I think i'll go for f/t mice cause i don't think I can kill a mouse myself... eventhough I think I can give the mouse to the snake and let nature do her thing
Mighty were u joking on saying it's fun to kill mice?! :sidestep:
Mighty were u joking on saying it's fun to kill mice?! :sidestep:
desertanimal
2003 UB313
Well, all I have to add is that I don't recommend to anyone who is sensitive about this to try the whack-on-a-table method with anything large.
I did once when I was a kid (then, frozen stuff was really difficult to find--I eventually got slit-throated rats from a lab, via an area herp breeder). It was a rat, and though I had read how to do it, I wasn't very good at the whacking. He bit the crap out of me, as was reasonable. I had to whack him three times. By the end of it, he was bleeding out his nose, I was bleeding all over like a stuck pig, and I hid in the bathroom bleeding and crying for a good long time. It was awful. Horrible. It was at least 15 years ago and it still makes me queasy to think about. I actually did not know that until reading this thread.
When I decided to get a corn, I was ELATED to find out that you can buy f/t just about anywhere you want. Whew. What a relief!
I did once when I was a kid (then, frozen stuff was really difficult to find--I eventually got slit-throated rats from a lab, via an area herp breeder). It was a rat, and though I had read how to do it, I wasn't very good at the whacking. He bit the crap out of me, as was reasonable. I had to whack him three times. By the end of it, he was bleeding out his nose, I was bleeding all over like a stuck pig, and I hid in the bathroom bleeding and crying for a good long time. It was awful. Horrible. It was at least 15 years ago and it still makes me queasy to think about. I actually did not know that until reading this thread.
When I decided to get a corn, I was ELATED to find out that you can buy f/t just about anywhere you want. Whew. What a relief!