From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-02-20 17:04:16 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Superworms
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Doris McGhee <gerinanapush@...> wrote:
>best solution for me has always been to crush their heads between my thumb and index
>finger. A (more) humane death for the mealworm...
>removes the danger of it trying to eat its' way out of the stomach of whatever swallows it.
>
I doubt there is any risk of that. In the first place, insect
larvae with ectoskeletons die rapidly once the ectoskeleton
is badly ruptured as teeth do. In the second place, stomach
acid would rapidly do a number on them if any were not bitten
(unlikely with a ferret).
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