I am one of the most humane people I know and using a freezer is better than starvation. There is no guarantee that it will be eaten by another critter, which will then leave it to starve to death - a lot less humane.



Because these are ecto-therm (cold blooded) animals the cold shuts down their system in a natural way - it's like going in to a cold night that just never warms up, they sort of "sleep to death". When my pygmy leaf chameleon was dying -and I knew there was NO way he would survive I put him in the freezer in order to hasten his demise. I rear a lot of leps and if I am losing one to disease into the freezer it goes. I certainly can't watch it writh on the floor of the cage until it dies.



After hand-feeding a crippled sphinx moth for several days into the freezer she went. They only live about a week but why have it suffer?



I know that there are differeing opinions on this but understanding the mechanisms of ecto-therms it is the best thing to do. Unless you know a vet who will euthanize an anole.



lele



>>Please...don't stick it in the freezer. How would you like to freeze to death? I wouldn't call it humane at all. Sounds quite cruel to me.

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>>If it was truly blind, it wouldn't be able to eat...so it's unlikely it's completely blind. Perhaps, it's just lazy/sickly.

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>>If you're planning on sticking it in the freezer, at least put it outside in the wild so it can 1. live, or 2. become a part of the food chain.

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>>-RT

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