Re: Best way to pre-kill?
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if you use gas, i would advise against the use of CO2.
its rather quick, but when mammals detect a CO2 increase in the blood stream they react with panic and a feeling of asphyxiation before they die.
Everyone you post there are always those long paragraph but I wonder is anything that you post ever based on hands on experience?
I am curious how many rodents have YOU euthanized this way?
Not what you heard, what you read, how many have you personally euthanized this way to come to this conclusion.
They key with Co2 is knowing how to do it. I have a pressure regulator and I can tell you they donīt react with panic. (That's based on MY experience of euthanizing 1000+ rats each year)
Now it is also one of the accepted method of euthanasia when it comes to rodents
https://www.avma.org/KB/Policies/Doc...euthanasia.pdf AVMA guidelines starts at the bottom of page 48
http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/euthanasia.html#4 University of Minnesota
http://ora.georgetown.edu/guacuc/pdf...re-6-20-06.pdf Georgetown University
http://www.iacuc.ucsf.edu/Policies/awGlEuthR.asp University of CA
And I can go on, so bottom line YOU might not recommend it but then again it you.
