how do you to stun a rat?

[snakesRkewl]

When mine had her two feeding "live-only" pickiness, I stunned the mouse by placing it in a ziplock bag and slamming the bag hard against a door 1-2 times. From what I've seen from personal experience, this just incapacitates them and they don't seem to come back with a vengeance. Then again, I did slam it pretty hard. By the time I dumped the mouse out into her feeding box, it was just twitching and peeing itself.

Yeah, that sounds humane....doh.
Snakes have been strangling rats for how many years?
Are you saying the natural way a snake eats is inhumane?

Slamming a rat against anything is inhumane, you can't be sure that death happens humanely, all you can do is you HOPE you slam it properly.