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11-23-2005, 02:47 PM
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Dry Ice for Co2?
My local grocery stores carries dry ice. I haven't checked the price of it, but was wondering if this is an alternative to a compressed Co2 chamber?
My thoughts are to put the pinkies in the bottom of a high bucket with with a chunk of dry ice. As the ice "melts", the Co2 will settle in the bottom and euthanize them.
I just thought about this today, so the idea might be full of holes. I don't even know how long dry ice takes to melt.
Any thoughts on this either briliant or idiotic idea?
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11-23-2005, 03:10 PM
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I have no idea if that will work or not, but I just smack mine against a hard surface. Yeah, its a bit more "hands on", and a bit more gruesome, but its also extremely quick. The mouse is dead before it knows what happened. I either put them in a bag and whack it against a wall or table top, or throw them on a hard floor.
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11-23-2005, 03:24 PM
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Or, if you don't want to be a gruesome Matt,  Put them in a cardboard box and cut a round hole in the side for the exhaust pipe of your vehicle. The carbon monoxide will put them into that permanent sleep. No pain involved. 
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Or, if you don't want to be a gruesome Matt, |
Hey, the usually don't explode 
Wouldn't CO2 and carbon monoxide take longer to kill them than a quick smack? Kind of like getting the gas chamber vs. having a piano fall on your head.
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11-23-2005, 03:43 PM
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True, but it's kind of messy smacking pinkies or fuzzies.
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Hello,
As the oxygen levels deplete, the mice go to sleep Matt. While they are asleep, they suffocate and never feel a thing. It does take longer, but its painless for the animal.
Have you ever smacked a mouse and didn't get him just right? I have. He squeeled, started doing the "kibby" and I had to whack him again.
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11-23-2005, 04:01 PM
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Or, if you don't want to be a gruesome Matt, Put them in a cardboard box and cut a round hole in the side for the exhaust pipe of your vehicle. The carbon monoxide will put them into that permanent sleep. No pain involved. |
Ever have problems feeding with the linger of the exhuast smell on the animal?
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This method is done usually for mice and/or rats that are to be frozen and the carbon monoxide is gone withing 24 hrs.
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11-23-2005, 04:56 PM
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For my adult mice, I dislocate the spine from the brain - quick and painless - no muss no fuss.
I am more concerned about my pinkies. I don't just want to throw them in the freezer, as it is too slow a freeze for killing, um, I mean euthanizing.
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Ya'll are terrible...I just use a hard soled flip flop, one good whack is all it takes. :|
The C02 will work. I recently had to use it to put something down, it was quick and painless. 
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