Better to humanely dispatch them and put them in the trash like you do, people feed them live to snakes!If I have several, I eat them. I just disposed of the little guy (in the trash) when a buyer took the girl Exchequer. He was only 6 weeks old and trying to crow. Some sell them to people who have pet snakes, or donate them to local wild life rescues, things like that. Hatcheries sell them as "chicken by-products" to pet food mfg.