Snake didn't eat... What do I do with the live rat pup?

[cobweb2000]

In my case, I didn't have the resources to keep it or humanly euthanize it. Some people make mistakes. Deal with it, hope they learned their lesson and move on please. You seem to be very disturbed by this thread, I would suggest not reading it anymore.

You had a hopefully isolated incident and will be better prepared the next time you need to deal with a live feeder (even better if your snake eats and you don't need to worry about it ). I have a feeling Abuja does not see why what he/she did was not the best option.

But I fully agree with Python1024; part of our responsibility of being snake owners are dealing with the feeders in a responsible and humane manner.

I mentioned this in another post, but I keep pet rats and work with a rat rescue so I am on a lot of forums/groups for people who own mice/rats/rabbits/gerbils--many of these people would have been affected by HR699. A very large percentage of all individual believe that people only own snakes because they enjoy seeing a small animal get killed. They are as afraid of snake owners as they are of the snakes themselves, if we continue to act like feeders are inanimate objects that have no right to be treated with a modicum of humanity, do you blame those people for not standing up with us to keep all exotic pets legal?