Am I a bad person!

NO, you are not a bad person. A long time ago, I actually had to do the same thing, but w/ a rat. It was when I was still trying to convert my adult female BP to rats. I dropped him in there alive, and he just ran around and stressed my BP out, and she wanted nothing to do w/ him. I tried everything, prescenting, starving her for like 2-3 weeks and everything. Long story short I ended up w/ a rat that my snake wouldn't eat. I had no other herps that ate rats, and the petstore wouldn't take him back/exchange for mice/etc. I didn't have a CO2 chamber, so I pretty much did what you did, except w/ hemostats. It's all part of getting into snakes and learning which ones eat what prey

dang man, how would you like if it someone choked you out with tweezers!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:





nah jus playin you do what you do.

ok to be quite honest im not a person to hurt animals. but i have found that my ball pythons like freshly killed the best. i have try frozen thawed but without any luck with any of my 10 ball pythons. so i kill 10 rats a week what can i say i am dedicated to my animals and will never stand for them to be bitten by a rat.

Drew Lewis

Wow I must suck becuase I whack the thing and then feed it to my snakes. I watched one of my snakes get bit by an adult mouse and that was it for me. I don't feel guilty....I don't feel like a bad person...I own snakes...they like mice and rats.. And quite frankly my "parental insticts" is NOTHING will hurt my babies! That being my child and my animals. :colbert:

Now with all that being said...I am one of the biggest "animal" huggers you will find. I have worked with many different animals throughout my years including working with small mammals at a zoo in Phx. They didn't CO2 the feeders...not saying that is not a great idea. However I refuse to feel guilty or like a I am a cruel person.

You're not a bad person, you're a fine person who made a very bad choice. I think that the fact you didn't look up methods to humanely kill the mouse was a brief moment of laziness or lack of common sense, but it was one mistake. Now you know better. Don't beat yourself up about it.

Pre-killing your snake's mice does not make you a bad person. Perhaps you could have chosen a more effective method of dispatching the mice, but there are certainly worse methods than the one you used so I wouldn't fret over it.

If I were you I would just order frozen rodents in bulk online so you don't have to worry about it. I really am not inclined to beat a rodent to death, not even for the sake of feeding my snake.

Luckily, I live 30 minutes from a Petsmart, and they always have frozen artic mice there...

Just do what they do to pigs, cows and other animals that humans eat at the processing plants. Electric shock them (puts them in a state of nothing) then break there neck or slit it. Your choice.

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Just do what they do to pigs, cows and other animals that humans eat at the processing plants. Electric shock them (puts them in a state of nothing) then break there neck or slit it. Your choice.

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Ugh, this is why I'm a vegetarian. Lol. :D

No, you're not a bad person.

I let my snake do the dirtywork :stab: