Found a Garter with a Broken Back, Perhaps? Help...

[infernalis]

I have experimented with this. A pre-refrigerated garter, 10 inches long, took ten minutes to die in the freezer.

But I still think the freezer is humane, because the snake is basically asleep from the refrigeration.

Try this, Place your garter in a container, set it in your refrigerator for half an hour, take it out and PLEASE tell me just how much asleep you think it is.

Metabolism slows, that is a scientific fact, but brain function and alert levels are still very much awake. Breeders always keep a fresh supply of drinking water during forced brumation, the "sleeping" snakes will drink from it.

Thanks Stefan for agreeing.

The mice thing is a another subject itself. If folks are going to have a hard time raising live prey, and then killing it, frozen dead rodents become very attractive. (And cheaper in the end)

Wayne