snake food help, asap

[mindlessvw]

none of us thought of that one....THEY ARE SNAKES FOR CHRIST SAKE! ya that is a good suggestion

 

[bugmankeith]

I thought of that when this was first posted, but I didnt want to antogonize spider man by saying it, he should have common sense to have known that. Some superhero let me tell you..

 

[Sherekahn777]

yea that works, but if your doing 1 or 2 at a time, its sometimes hard to get dry ice.

For best ways that and the carbon monoxide chamber are definately the best. The neck/spinal cord breaking, while not great, is probably the best simple way.

From what I was told, carbon monoxide burns their insides up, and is not a pleasant death at all. I heard just throwing them in the freezer is beeter than that, because all they do is get really cold, then fall asleep and never wake up. As for the BEST way, snapping the neck, its quick and painless. If you do it right, the animal feels almost no pain at all.
As for me though, I just buy em frozen.

 

[Midnightrdr456]

no carbon monoxide doesnt just eat up their insides, it kills them the same way it kills humans. They passout and die. Thats how all the frozen feeder companies kill their rodents humanely.

also my first post in this thread said the snake didnt need to eat. A healthy snake can go 3 weeks - month with no food, if they absolutely must.

 

[Bill S]

no carbon monoxide doesnt just eat up their insides, it kills them the same way it kills humans. They passout and die. Thats how all the frozen feeder companies kill their rodents humanely.

Actually, they usually use carbon DIoxide, not MONoxide. Less toxic, more commercially available. If you are working on a commercial scale, you can get big cylinders of compressed CO2 cheaply and easily. Use it pretty much the same way I described for using dry ice, other than instead of hanging a bag of the dry ice in the container you just run a rubber hose from the cylinder to the container.

 

[Midnightrdr456]

my mistake then, thanks for the correction

 

[Bill S]

my mistake then, thanks for the correction

Well, you were correct about carbon monoxide not tearing up an animal's insides. Carbon monoxide kills by attaching to the red blood cells the way oxygen would, which effectively blocks the cells' ability to carry oxygen to other body parts. Suffocates quickly, but doesn't tear anything up. Carbon dioxide kills only in contained environments simply by displacing oxygen. THis also suffocates quickly without tearing anything up. But you can use carbon dioxide indoors without fear of affecting other indoor residents.