Humane way to euthanize rats?

Ok so if you take a live rat, put it in with a snake so it can strike, bite squeeze the rat to a slow death and thats humane? But whackin it on the head so it dies immediatlly is not humane? Lol really. You own snakes. Either feed em live or crack em on the head if ya wanna freeze em. I personally breed my own rats and i feed live every week. If i have rats left over from a feeding they go back in the rat racks. I have 12 breeder rat racks and 6 holding racks so with that amount of production i do tend to have surplus from time to time but i usually dont have to freeze cause i sell em to other breeders but if ya have to freeze theres nothin wrong with whackin em and baggin em

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Originally Posted by satomi325

I wonder why so many rat people have them then?:confused::confused::confused: I read this in a rat forum and it seemed like a common home euthanasia practice there....LOL..... rat people = black market users??? :O hahaha

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maby they make i dunno,,,, i dident think they sold anesthetics to the general public.. could be wrong.
spooky

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Originally Posted by mr.spooky

maby they make i dunno,,,, i dident think they sold anesthetics to the general public.. could be wrong.
spooky

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I think you may be right....:confused:

sometimes i get deals on 50-100+ live rats. i take 2 5 gallon buckets and fill them half way with water put some rats in one and put the other on top. then just dry them off and freeze them. not something i like to do and can be a pain in the a$$ doing 100 rats but it works.
anyone use the dry ice way mentioned above? and where do you get dry ice?

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Originally Posted by snake lab

Ok so if you take a live rat, put it in with a snake so it can strike, bite squeeze the rat to a slow death and thats humane? But whackin it on the head so it dies immediatlly is not humane? Lol really. You own snakes. Either feed em live or crack em on the head if ya wanna freeze em. I personally breed my own rats and i feed live every week. If i have rats left over from a feeding they go back in the rat racks. I have 12 breeder rat racks and 6 holding racks so with that amount of production i do tend to have surplus from time to time but i usually dont have to freeze cause i sell em to other breeders but if ya have to freeze theres nothin wrong with whackin em and baggin em

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there are reconised ways of humanely euthanizing rats,,,, and puting them in a bag and "wacking "them is not one of them.
you can also hold them under water:rolleyes:,,, throw them at the wall:rolleyes:,, or sit on them:rolleyes::rolleyes:.... the OP wants to do it the right way... not a barbaric " put em in a tater sack and thump em" kinda way..
spooky

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Originally Posted by shadow120

sometimes i get deals on 50-100+ live rats. i take 2 5 gallon buckets and fill them half way with water put some rats in one and put the other on top. then just dry them off and freeze them. not something i like to do and can be a pain in the a$$ doing 100 rats but it works.
anyone use the dry ice way mentioned above? and where do you get dry ice?

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are you serious??????? you all are killing me....
spooky

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Originally Posted by shadow120

sometimes i get deals on 50-100+ live rats. i take 2 5 gallon buckets and fill them half way with water put some rats in one and put the other on top. then just dry them off and freeze them. not something i like to do and can be a pain in the a$$ doing 100 rats but it works.
anyone use the dry ice way mentioned above? and where do you get dry ice?

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You can get dry ice at many grocery stores and super walmarts. I highly recommend CO2 euthanasia for you.....Freezing is not humane at all and very painful. If you can't get dry ice, you can use vinegar and baking soda instead.

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Originally Posted by satomi325

You can get dry ice at many grocery stores and super walmarts. I highly recommend CO2 for you.....Freezing is not humane at all and very painful. If you can't get dry ice, you can use vinegar and baking soda instead.

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hees not freezing them,,,,,, hees drowning them:tears::rage:
spooky

I don't think he's freezing them until after they are dead. I think he's drowning them.... If I read that correctly.
Ya thats definately not a way to euth rats humanely. Wowzer

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So I'm guessing that since your working with one rat you don't want to go through the expense of buying a co2 tank or finding dry ice. You can use common household products to create co2. There are plenty of guides online using Baking soda and vinegar. It works well enough to euthanize a rat. I'm not sure if it would produce enough Co2 over a sustained period of time to kill a larger grouping but it might. Please don't put them in a bag and bash them around because that's just plain animal abuse. Sorry if you disagree but people keep rats as pets and to them doing that is akin to placing a puppy in a bag and slamming it all over the place.