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CO 2 does not work on reptiles

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Posted by: ssnakes at Tue Jul 22 20:37:20 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ssnakes ]  
   

You will have to be responsible for this animal for the length of its lifetime if you allow it to live. That decision is up to you and how you feel about that responsibility. No one will be interested in buying it due to its deformity. It will be strictly a "PET" to you. If this is what you want, then allow it to live and nurture it well.

If you choose to put the kinked baby down, please use the freezer and NOT CO2.

CO2 does not work on reptiles because of their slow metabolism.

Many of you feed live rodents to reptiles and watch as the snake constricts and kills the rodent in a minute or two. I feel that is how the animal will pass in the freezer. It slows the metabolism way down and the animal goes to sleep.


   

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