Quote Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
You know so little about your own snake... really they suffocate the prey and there is a lot of research being done around the fact the heart of the rats stops before they suffocate so there is a possibility they kill by heart failure.

Leaving the morality aside, this is a public forum and comments like these hurt the hobby more deeply than you have given thought to. I am not in the United States but with the discussion of laws being passed around giving the anti reptile lobby ammunition doesn't seem like a good idea.
I've watched a rat struggle for at least two minutes before it died. I've even seen videos of snakes eating rats who were only stunned and came back to life in the middle of being eaten.