Morals and ethics of snake as feeders (what do you do with your normal spin-off)

[Sauzo]

That's why I feed frozen thawed. If they are alive I can't do it. I cry like a baby. I dont know how you cAn see those cute little snoots pop out of the egg, alive, and then send them to their death. I just can't. With booples rats I never see them alive. I had rats as pets in high school. But these are not those rats and they are already gone and frozen when o get them. There is no attachment. There is a difference.

I used to do cervical dislocation to mice and rats but i quit doing it as large rats have really tough spines and kind of thick necks so if you do it wrong, you either gimp them and dont kill them or you rip the tail skin off them. I felt bad doing either of those which is when i switched to FT. Plus i dont want to have to kill rabbits and guinea pigs. For me, i dont think of them as 'pets'. They are simply food. It's kind of how i can look at a cow and think 'mmmm that would make good steak' lol. i guess it's also how you were raised. I was raised around hunting and guns and stuff so i guess its a little different. I just dont like to see food go to waste. Like people who kill for the pleasure of it. You kill to eat or you kill to put something out of its misery, not for fun.

I've gassed snakes before, you can keep them in CO2 for a really long time and after you take them out they can revive themselves , it's amazing. CO2 isn't perfect but if you read state laws about euthanization its the most legal and accepted method for all animals. I used to breed canaries and when I started I froze all my deformed chicks, apparently that's not legal and supposedly a very painful way to go. Another approved method is an explosive device like a gun or bomb LOL. That's probably the quickest and most humane but may be the most dangerous for the user, I wouldn't recommend it!

Never seen that but I'll take your word for it. Like i said above, i used to just do cervical dislocation. If done right, it is almost instant but if not done right, oh man....it hurts my feelings seeing the animal

And yeah, i imagine a bomb would do it except you would have to scrape pieces of rat off the inside of a garbage can and feed your snake rat pate LOL.