Envenomation of rodents

[aquamentus_11]

I've never been into feeding live 'non-fish' animals to my snakes (my dad tried when I was a kid once and we ended up gaining a pet mouse for a week then returning it), but I'm so curious about the potency of garter venom and how its possible effects vary with prey size, species, garter species, etc. Does anyone have any firsthand experience with subdual times of rodents, fish, etc.? Can anyone point me in the right direction to find some data on this? I'd love to do the experiments myself, but I refuse to take prey from the wild to feed to a captive bred animal. Health risks aside, it's just not right. Worms don't count :D

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a few articles I found. Most are abstracts but you being in college that shouldn't be much of a problem.
The abstract is there where it says an error occurred.

Characterization of venom (Duvernoy?s secretion) from twelve species of colubrid snakes and partial sequence of four venom proteins (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004101010000091X)
An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15569549309084186)
Venom yields from several species of colubrid snakes and differential effects of ketamine (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041010196001742)
An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1081/txr-120004741)
Human envenomation from a wandering garter snake (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019606449470113X)

[aquamentus_11]

Thanks Steve