Easy and Humane killing of live prey

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ut for all sake if you can feed F/T then its cheaper in the long run and you don't have to worry about the whole did it hurt thing.

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Well yeah, but what if your snake won't take F/T? I have my guilt hanging over me for feeding live last night. I keep telling myself:
"Well the thing would have lived a pretty boring and simple life stuck in a feeder aquarium with ten others. He was the scrawniest one there too. He would have died anyway."
So I'm thinking about making a CO2 chamber.

I just do what I have to do. It would be a different matter if the rats I kill suffered, but they don't. it's an instant death.
This kind of reminds me of my views on deer hunting. I see nothing wrong with hunting; since we have killed off natural predators in order to make this area safer for ourselves, we have to do something to keep the deer populations in check.
But my view is, if someone is not a really great shooter, they have no business being a hunter. If you can't shoot it dead with one bullet, then you should go practice target shooting a bit more before you go hacking into the woods. I hate hearing about people who shot a deer in, say, the leg, and the poor thing walked around bleeding to death for hours. Sometimes, these animals are never even found.
Similar is my view on using the "whack" method to kill rats. If you know how to do it with one efficient whack, then the rat does not even know what'll hit it, and it'll die instantly without feeling pain. When I do it, the rat never even twitches.
At any rate, it's more humane than watching a snake squeeze the life out of it!

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Just an FYI, according to the 2000 study by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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Well, being that they are a veterinary medical association they are probobly putting down PET mice and rats and of course somebody who brings in there pet mouse to be put down from some kind of illness (i dunno) is not going to want there mousie killed by whacking it on somthing, you know ? of course a vet is going to look at that as an inhumane way of killing something

Like led said........i dont think they are talking about feeder mice.But i agree, feeder mice,rats,rabbits should of course suffer as little as they have to before they die.

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Originally Posted by Brandon.O

Like led said........i dont think they are talking about feeder mice.

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euthanasia

n : the act of killing someone painlessly

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Given the title of the paper and the above definition, I think it's pretty clear that they were talking about all animals under any circumstances.

If you take the time to actually read it, you will see that the study focuses on the "how" and not the "why" of dispatching animals.

-adam