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.

I suppose either way its gone die, but I'd be less inclined to drown it:weirdface

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Originally Posted by lar20

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

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A hopper can not hurt a snake. Why kill it?

I've never fed f/t or pre-killed to any of my ball pythons. I have over 40 of them, they all get live. I don't have the time, or the inclination to defrost feeders for all of them, and I seen no reason to pre-kill. They are swift and efficient hunters.

There are stickies in the feeder forum (in fact, this thread is moving there, since it's really not about snakes but about feeders and how to dispatch them) about how to make an inexpensive CO2 chamber.

ok um i found a forum on how to kill the mice easy and humane they sorta go to sleep from lack of oxygen and die in their sleep so i guess ill try it out when i move on to regular mice i didnt know the hoppers couldnt hurt the snake this is my first snake lol