drowning a mouse?

hey everybody im getting a baby BP soon and ive decided i wanna feed it freshly killed food. i hear bad sides about live and frozen food so i figure ill feed it fresh killed. the problem is i dont think i have the heart to slam a mouse on a counter or somthing to kill it lol i was wondering if i could just like stick its head under water and drown it? cus then the mouse would keep its scent and i could just dry it off and feed the snake right after?

drowning is a far more painful, horrible and prolonged death than slamming it agianst a table.

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Originally Posted by Kryptonian

drowning is a far more painful, horrible and prolonged death than slamming it agianst a table.

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i know but if it was being fed live it would be suffocated so like its the same death sorta lol idk i guess ill just try to break its neck some other way the adult mice will be easier its just hopper mice i dont think i can pull on their tail and head cus their tail will rip off

you could gas them with co2. there are some threads on here explaining how.

I was always told that if I had a problem feeding mice..Either live or pre-killed, then a snake wasnt a good pet for me...anyway....:confused::confused:

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Originally Posted by BiggBaddWolf

I was always told that if I had a problem feeding mice..Either live or pre-killed, then a snake wasnt a good pet for me...anyway....:confused::confused:

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oh i have no problem feeding him mice lol i just dont wanna slam one on a counter if i could break its neck wihtout pulling its tail off i would

Well in your original post you stated you didnt have the heart to kill the mouse..anyway I usually feed live, except on occasion, and I have never had a tail pull off.....:O

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Originally Posted by BiggBaddWolf

Well in your original post you stated you didnt have the heart to kill the mouse..anyway I usually feed live, except on occasion, and I have never had a tail pull off.....:O

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nah i ment i didnt have the heart to bash its head agenst a table lol and im not feeding him a grown mouse yet just hoppers

Do not drown a mouse.. that is incredibly inhumane..

Just feed live. Snakes also do not suffocate their prey if they can help it, rather they try to pinpoint the heartbeat and stop blood-flow to the brain and organs. This shuts down the body a lot faster than suffocation does.

I suggest either feeding live or f/t unless you have a humane way of euthanizing the rodent. I feed all of my ball pythons live, and none of them has ever been hurt.