Feeding mice that were sedated with Ketamine/Xylazine

[instinct27]

Anyone know if it is safe for a snake to consume a mouse that was sedated with a Ketamine/Xylazine cocktail around 30 minutes before it was euthanized?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I have a better question why would you want to do that?

[SatanicIntention]

I would not. There would likely be effects to the snake from ingesting the drugs.

Why was the mouse sedated??

[llovelace]

[instinct27]

The reason I am wondering is because I contacted a research company that uses mice.

They often euthanize many mice that they don't use but the ones they do use for their research are often sedated. They were willing to give me euthanized mice free of charge.

I guess it's a no go

[puddintain]

I would be scared they did something else to the muse that would cause harm to your snake. Like gave it some whacked out lab created super virus. Not likely but I have seen all those zombie movies

[LadyOhh]

I would be scared they did something else to the muse that would cause harm to your snake. Like gave it some whacked out lab created super virus. Not likely but I have seen all those zombie movies

Very very very very very slim chance they would do that, and if that were the case, they would not be giving the dead bodies away to some guy on the street. Biohazardous and such... you know?



LOL

Funny that that even came up.

[mainbutter]

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[PythonWallace]

It takes longer than that for those drugs to run their course and leave the mouse's system, so unless it's been at least a few days since they were last sedated, I would not think about feeding them to anything. I believe they have a very low toxicity compared to a lot of other medications, but they are strong dissociative anesthetics, like PCP, so I wouldn't want my snakes getting zonked out like that or worse.

[puddintain]

Very very very very very slim chance they would do that, and if that were the case, they would not be giving the dead bodies away to some guy on the street. Biohazardous and such... you know?



LOL

Funny that that even came up.

I was only being half serious about the zombie virus, but you still have to wonder what they did to the mice.