freezing mice......humane question...well lots of

[CrazyHedgehog]

My husband says the quickest way to kill the adult mice is to put them in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, and put the garden hose in and fill it. Then walk away for 5 minutes. Have heard drownding is one of the easiest ways to go. And they freeze nicely afterwards.

...Yes maybe, but the mice would panic....I would feel worse than I do already....agggghhh

have requested a price for large C02 cannisters (the 4ft to 6ft bottles) in the long run, I think it may be cheaper than the bicarb and vinegar...apparently because of the quietness of the release of gas, the mice don't hear it and so just pass out without realising anything is wrong....much better for my concsience....

Oh why can't my snakes be vegetarians....(are there any vegetarian snakes?)

[Stefan-A]

What about electrocution?

[suzoo]

Oh why can't my snakes be vegetarians....(are there any vegetarian snakes?)

Rough Green snakes eat crickets and wax worms

[RedSided]

The mice I get are thrown against a wall as far as I know

[Gyre]

Somebody i know drownd a nest of chipmonks one time, and it wasn't very humane at all.. Thaty swam around for twenty minutes. Pinkies, eyes and ears closed.

[adamanteus]

I just pick mine up by the base of the tail then whack them sharply on the edge of something. It's instant lights out.

[abcat1993]

Pinkies can swim?

[CrazyHedgehog]

OK, well the official line from RSPCA is to...(wasn't i brave asking them!)

For pinkies.... wrap them in tissue paper, place them on a pre frozen tray, put in freezer..

older mice, use C02 gas very slowly increasing until they pass out, then once unconscous flood chamber with c02.

[zirliz]

I've just gotten a pair of breeding mice how long before I can expect babies?
that does sound the best method seems how It's illegal to feed living to snakes here

[KITKAT]

I've just gotten a pair of breeding mice how long before I can expect babies?
that does sound the best method seems how It's illegal to feed living to snakes here

The gestation of the house mouse (white mice sold in pet stores) is 19 days. If the female mouse is nursing a litter, she will also be pregnant at the same time. And when she is pregnant and nursing at the same time, the gestation is delayed and may be as long as 26 days.