Quote Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh View Post
You know... you "people" that are so quick to declare that freezing a reptile is inhumane.... Why have you refused to answer my one question? If freezing is so bad, what is a humane way to put down a reptile? What studies have been done to show that the way you mention is in fact less painful / stressful to a reptile then freezing?

What do you mean a snake can't have a headache? Are you kidding me? Are they some kind of superior being that is not capable of feeling pain?

Finally, I think a lot of the people holding hands and chanting "don't freeze, it hurts" genuinely don't have a clue, and aren't living in the real world. I am no way shape or form suggesting that freezing a reptile is inhumane. See below for what I mean about you kiddies not having a clue.

It is 7:00pm on a Sunday. The hobbyist ball breeder checks on his eggs and they have piped!!!!! He is so excited and filled with absolute happiness, until he sees the one in the corner is completed and totally jacked up. its face is all twisted up and its back is as crooked as a corkscrew. It keeps banging its head into the side of the tub... It looks like it is trying to open its mouth but its jaw is so crooked it can't open it.

What would you do? Keep in mind it is 7:00pm on a Sunday night. Going to the vet on Monday is out of the quesiton because you have to work Monday morning, and it is of course the busiest day of the week. You also have to do all the normal stuff of taking the kids to school and going to practice the second you get home from work. Tuesday probably isn't going to work either. Oh yeah, and keep in mind the snake is still banging its head against the wall.
I'd freeze it

Oh and add the fact that most vets don't deal with reptiles and they might mess things up even more. We have a local vet, Dr. Killmore (Keemore is his given name) and he has sent DOGS home to be buried that came back alive and brain dead. I would rather freeze than take that baby to any vet around here, none of them deal with reptiles in a 40 mile radius of me, possibly even a bigger radius than that! Although I'd freeze if there was a vet that knew a thing or two about reptiles. That's just my opinion.