I currently have a hognose snake that was dead on arrival and a ferret in my freezer. Hoggie I just didn't know what to do with really, didn't want to throw him away, can't bury anything in the winter and just haven't gotten around to doing anything with it. Ferret, we bury them in our yard. This spring however the ground heaved or something and at some point my dogs noticed. Yeah so that was icky and now I don't really want to bury anything there for awhile. I suppose I could have him cremated but I'm not really one to keep ashes around and it's quite expensive. I honestly have never heard of "ferret people" keeping bodies to get a reduced rate but I could understand it, they don't live long and many people keep a lot of ferrets, I've had 9 in under a decade and 7 dead so far. I doubt the local vet runs a reduced rate anyway though, they are money grubbing. I feed raw and a lot of whole prey, rabbits, ducks, quail so there's already a lot of dead animals and meat in my freezers.