painless euthanization

[stager]

For the last week I've had a little visitor a field mouse in my home I bought catch-and-release traps but unfortunately they didn't work. Today while changing the garbage bag in my kitchen I looked down and there he was I must have crushed him with the can because he was dragging his back legs like his back was broke. I looked up on the Internet humane ways of euthanization and found this technique . putting in a container with a cup with baking soda and vinegar in it to create carbon monoxide I did it and it seems painless anyone ever tried this for geckos?

 

[Neon Aurora]

You can make carbon dioxide by putting baking soda in vinegar, not carbon monoxide.

Carbon dioxide isn't a good way to euthanize reptiles because reptiles have such low oxygen requirements. It could take hours of exposure, and even then they've been known to revive.

 

[stager]

Thanks for the info

 

[Neon Aurora]

=)

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I totally agree with Neon. CO or CO2 works well with small animals like mice and sparrows that have really high metabolisms and hyperventilate quickly. With bigger animals and cold blooded animals it is not considered a humane method :/

 

[DmanXcell]

That begs the questions as to how one is supposed to euthanize leopard geckos...I hope I never have to but as I am looking to try breeding next season, it would be good to know how to correctly put a leopard gecko down.

 

[Neon Aurora]

This has been discussed before. I looked into it rather extensively because I had a leopard gecko with severe gout that needed to be euthanized. I ended up going to the vet. But the conclusion I came to based on research materials and the protocol they use in labs is that the best way to do it is destruction of the brain while the animal is anesthetized. Unfortunately not many people have anesthetics at their disposal, so the vet is usually the best way to go.

Some people also just allow nature to do its thing and feed the animal to another animal provided it isn't diseased.

 

[indyana]

I also consider going to a vet to be the most humane option, should I ever need to euthanize one of my reptiles. I think I'll have to have a talk with my vet before I start breeding though, to plan for that eventuality.