Question about mice.

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Originally Posted by gen

I don't know if I'm just a girly wus or what, but I had to smack it a good few times (it wouldn't die), feeling horrible about torturing the poor thing, before I finally realized I should put it in a bag and smack it hard. That put it out of it's misery. Darn it, I said I didn't want to elaborate. Oh well. If I do it again, I'll put it in a bag or pillow case first thing and give it a good smack. But I'd rather have the guy at the pet shop kill it for me.

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Its the draw back of owning predators. Unfortunately, Purina snake chow is still in the labs and wont be out in the markets anytime soon :roll:
So if you are going to own a bigger snake then you will have to be prepared to kill rats, rabits, goats and the occasional nosy neighbor or two :P

There are some good articles on line about humanely euthanizing rodents. One method that works fairly well, and for the most part is relatively painless for the rodent, is CO2 poisoning. The easiest method for this is to place the rodent in an enclosed container, connected by an air hose to a smaller container where a piece of dry ice is contained, immersed in water to speed up the CO2 release. The CO2 displaces the oxygen in the rodent's container, and the rodent basically goes to sleep much the same way we do when the anestesiologist puts us under for surgery. The difference is, the level of CO2 continues to rise in the rodent's container, bringing about first a comatose state, then finally, death.

Necropsies done on rodents euthanized this way show no traces of the normal compounds in the blood or tissue that are associated with a stressful death. You don't get stressed out trying to beat the rodent to death, and the rodent doesn't get stressed out as you're trying to whack it, either.

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Originally Posted by Raj

So if you are going to own a bigger snake then you will have to be prepared to kill rats, rabits, goats and the occasional nosy neighbor or two

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LOL!!!

You gotta admit, Bob Clark's "Fluffy" is probably a much more intimidating "watchdog" than any Rottweiler would be...

"Burglar? What burglar? We didn't see any burglar. The bulge in Fluffy's middle? Probably just a rather large pig..."