CO2 for feeder euthenasia

[craigafrechette]

Originally Posted by CuriousSnake

The general question is just if anyone knows of or can think of anything better than CO2 since it still causes pain.

Ok, that's more or less what I thought. To my knowledge, CO2 is the most humane way, but I admittedly don't know a lot on the tooic.

I'll be interested to see what others say. Good thread toipc!

[Scubadiver59]

I read several articles on euthanizing w/CO2 and the various mixing methods and concentrations and how they cause distress in the animals before they expire--some combinations make the animal aware they're dying, and others leave the prey clueless until it's too late.

But if someone is worrying about humane methods of euthanizing prey, and not purchasing their prey from someone who does it for a living, or if someone can't abide feeding live prey that obviously suffer painfully (mentally and physically) during the constriction/suffocation process, I wouldn't recommend keeping snakes.

Originally Posted by craigafrechette

Ok, that's more or less what I thought. To my knowledge, CO2 is the most humane way, but I admittedly don't know a lot on the tooic.

I'll be interested to see what others say. Good thread toipc!

[Benjamin1975]

[QUOTE=Scubadiver59;

But if someone is worrying about humane methods of euthanizing prey, and not purchasing their prey from someone who does it for a living, or if someone can't abide feeding live prey that obviously suffer painfully (mentally and physically) during the constriction/suffocation process, I wouldn't recommend keeping snakes.[/QUOTE]I agree with this,pain in the euthanization process in likely inevitable. whether done yourself or done by someone you bought from.so if you like to keep snakes you will have to deal with it somehow