Whacking rats...

hmm...i dont suppose a plastic kitchen bag would work just as well? Or maybe line the pillowcase with a kitchen bag......

i used plastic bag and it worked fine

I've always used a plastic grocery bag, doubled or tripled when the rat was big. You have to find that good balance between killing and an exploding rat :shock:

Get a towel(prevents scratchs and bites)
Grab feeder by tail with weak hand
Have towel covering palm of strong hand
Lay feeder in towel covered palm
Close hand around feeder with thumb and index finger above feeders shoulder,behind the head.
Move your tail grip further up (thickest part of the tail and dont let go)
Make sure your grip is secure behind the head(Dont SKAA`WOOOSSH IT !) just firm will do.
Now make one quick pull of the tail(Dont YANK IT) just like using a pull chain for a ceiling fan and you`ll feel(less then the feeder) a crunchy between your fingers on the head end.
DONT FREAK OUT AND DROP IT !!
Just a few seconds of squirming and its DINNER TIME !!

So you are basically severing its spinal cord?

I put my rats in a ziploc freezer bag and bang it against the counter. It doesnt take too much to kill them. But I want to try the CO2. When I get a house i want to raise rats for feeders and will euthenize them like that.

I wonder if you could just use CO2 and from a canister that you'd get for a paintball gun, like place them in a freezer bag and fill it with the gas? Would they just go to sleep painlessly like that, or would they actually suffocate while they were still concious? Even if it was just enough to knock them out w/o totally killing them, it'd still be better than being constricted alive or being smashed against the floor...

Is this just going too far or would that be a humane, workable idea?

I think the only problem with the CO2/ziplock combo would be if the rodent's claws punctured the bag in any way, allowing the gas to escape. It's very easy to make a CO2 chamber with paintball supplies, a rubber stopper from Home Depot & a small, airtight container.

K

Check this out:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/PNphpBB2...t-Chamber.html

Far better then re`enacting an 100 mph head on crash with a counter top or door jam IMO
They feel nothing,cant say the same for the blunt trauma method

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

So you are basically severing its spinal cord?

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