Rodent Mod

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by HokieDNA01

I used to work at a lab where killing mice and pinkies was an everyday chore. Sad but those critters breed a littler of 10-15babies every 21 days. If she had rescued them they would have just nested somewhere else. Pinkies are also VERY hard to kill by "humane" methods. crushing them or taking their heads off is the quickest way. I would have done the same thing.

I just feed em to the snakes. In the labs dont they asphyxiate them with co2?

[anthonyk]

Originally Posted by tommymac

I just feed em to the snakes. In the labs dont they asphyxiate them with co2?

Depends on what they're being used for, I bet. I worked in a brain lab for a summer, and they just lopped off the pinkies' heads over a bucket of liquid nitrogen.

The kittens got better treatment. At least they got knocked out before the brains came out. (It was a shitty summer.)

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by anthonyk

Depends on what they're being used for, I bet. I worked in a brain lab for a summer, and they just lopped off the pinkies' heads over a bucket of liquid nitrogen.

The kittens got better treatment. At least they got knocked out before the brains came out. (It was a shitty summer.)

When I was in PA school our pharmacology prof hooked me up with a bunch of mice and rats for my critters and he said they were all killed via asphyxiation and then frozen for me. I dont recall what they were using them for though.