How do i stun a rat?

my bp is eating rats, but she wont take f/t. how can i stun the rat?:confused:

Whack it (not a fan).

will it live?

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Originally Posted by Josh Emmons

will it live?

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If you have to whack it, don't just knock it out, break it's spine with one blow to ensure a quick and PAINLESS death. I do use this method but I've done it about 102912309 times... for the rat's sake, I do not recommend it.

ive heard you can flick a smaller rat in the back of the head to knock it out

Just...don't.

I know some time back there was some useful information posted up which noted that a lot of the rats suffer unnecessarily because the person doing it gets scared/nervous and doesn't do it right... a rat in a world of hurt prior to getting squeezed to death is a bit unethical in my opinion.

I just drop the live rat in with the snake. Snakes are born killers...let them do their thing :gj:

I'm not a fan of "stunning" feeders, I aim to kill them. I hold them by the tail and slam them against the edge of the counter, but I rarely prekill, I just feed live if they won't take F/T. Since you're new at it you can put it in a pillow case and smack it against a solid surface as hard as you can. But like others have said you could chicken out and not do it right and wind up making the rat suffer more than they would if the snake had killed them.

If you don't want to feed live and your snake will only eat freshly killed rodents I'd check out the stickies in the DIY section on making a CO2 chamber. At least then they'd die painlessly.

You don't need to stun it, just feed it to your snake.

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Originally Posted by panthercz

You don't need to stun it, just feed it to your snake.

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Exactly. It's not humane to stun a rat. Pre kill it humanely or just feed it live.

You can hit it with something hard like a rock,stick,bat,ect....is ther a man ther that can maybe help you with this? why dont you feed it live?if it dose not like F/T then what it dose like is what you need to give it...