feeding

[TheRedDragon]

I myself have a Kenyan that is a problem feeder (Invictus may have mentioned her). We decided to try her on fresh killed. So, Invictus brought home this cute little hopper...I put it in a plastic bag, and whacked it. Anyways, to make a long story short, I felt an immense amount of guilt for it, and, from now on, I'd prefer to find a more humane way to do it, or to just get someone else do it. Invictus suggested mousetraps...that may be a decent solution since it breaks their necks instantly, but, I have seen the traps miss, which would cause the mouse to suffer needlessly. What are your thoughts on the trap idea?

[KingJaff]

normally when we use rat traps, 8 out of 10 times we always find the rat with its eyes poped out of its sockets (not nice) if not theres always loads of blood coming out of the ears and nose (very messy and not perticulaly good for the snake)

[elaphe4herps]

I wanted to say that a good way to keep the smell of rats and mice down, if you breed, is to put chlorophyll in the water. you can buy chlorophyll at drug stores and nutrition stores as is comes in liquid pill form. it is used to treat bad breath in humans. also, I wanted to say that mice smell worse than rats, imo.

anyway, I just wanted to throw in my .02 (but not get into the whole.. killing discussion)


Thanks, WES :zi:

[snkmn]

they breed the rodents.

[reptiledude21]

u could just put some rubbing alcohol in front of its nose and drug it first.