You're right, there are people that find feeding mice to snakes cruel but there are people that find eating meat is cruel as well. Eating is deffinatly cruel to the animal being consumed but thats life...or death depending on which side you happen to be on.

I admit that I am pretty defensive and vocal over what I consider to be mistreatment of animals. I also understand that others opinions of whats cruel and whats not will be different from mine but this rubberband method is hardly debatable, unless you need specimens for some reason.

I recently found a toad (it lives in my flowerbed) and it looks just like a fowleri. The problem is that there aren't any fowleri around here so now I need to collect a tissue sample for a genetic test to detirmine exactly what this is. At first I was asked to freeze the toad and send it in but didn't want to do it. Now I'v been asked to clip four (4) toes and send those in but the idea of mutilating the toad doesn't really interest me either. As you can see, I have a big heart for these and all other animals.

Yes I am from Ontario.

Russ

PS do you know any good methods for taking tissue samples from toads, perhaps blood rather then removing digits??

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