PLEASE Help

[05brandon50]

Other methods would all involve rapid destruction of the brain, I wouldn't want to smash my snake's heads but I could probably bring myself to push a scalpel into the base of the skull and give it a wiggle.
Search for "euthanasia" on the forum and you'll find discussion about methods and pros and cons.

I couldn't bring myself to do that method let alone put her in the fridge.

No offense was meant by anyone. We are just brainstorming ideas as to a possible cause. There is still so much we don't know about garters. Troubles like this occur sometimes even with the best of care.

I know, I wasn't taking offense to it I was just saying that I wasn't going against the rules or doing anything abnormal like feeding her goldfish or wrigglers


I have decided to go and get dry ice and use it to create CO2 today if I come home to find her still suffering. Thank you all for your continued support. Never in my life would I have thought I was going to have to kill one of my own snakes.. This is heart breaking

[chris-uk]

This is heart breaking

The fact that it is heart-breaking means that you care. When I had to euthanise one of my checkered scrubs that hadn't eaten for 4 months and started to convulse I cried for an hour - it still upsets me to think of it 18 months later. Don't consider that you are "killing one of your own snakes", if you do need to do it you aren't doing it for your own gratification, you're doing it because she is suffering.