Humane way to euthanize rats?

[shadow120]

ya im drowning them and like i said its not something i like to do but in my defence i dont think its any slower or more painful then being crushed by a snake. ill have to look into the dry ice

[satomi325]

yikes....

Hmm.. For some reason I read it as he's getting them wet to make the freezing process go faster.....

But drowning is still really inhumane!!

[Ladybugzcrunch]

Break their necks for goodness sakes! Hold rat by tail; use other hand to pin head of rat with screwdriver, pen, or other similar object; yank tail hard to separate cranium from spine. Quick, easy, and painless. Please do not "thump, drown, or sit on them!" I use gas on pinks and pups though - tail is weak.

[Ladybugzcrunch]

ya im drowning them and like i said its not something i like to do but in my defence i dont think its any slower or more painful then being crushed by a snake. ill have to look into the dry ice

Snakie has no other way to kill rattie. Us humans be smarter with tools.

[mr.spooky]

Break their necks for goodness sakes! Hold rat by tail; use other hand to pin head of rat with screwdriver, pen, or other similar object; yank tail hard to separate cranium from spine. Quick, easy, and painless. Please do not "thump, drown, or sit on them!" I use gas on pinks and pups though - tail is weak.

cervical dislocation is one way of killing MICE, but is not comon procedure for rats.
spooky

[snake lab]

Lmao. This thread is seriouslly funny. There really is a guidline of accepted practices to humanely killing a rat? I mean come on. The most humane way of killing anything is sudden death. Quick painless done. The needle they stick a dog with to put it down hurts more then sudden death. Drowning a rat? So your not worried about the amount of water it swallows and fills in its lungs then having to defrost that? Not to mention the added drainage and mess during defrost. Setting up a gas chamber or screw around with dry ice etc. Really? Just smack the friggin thing on the head and be done with it. Quick, sudden, bam, done. But i do love when a thread spirals out of control so i cant wait for ideas of tiny electric chairs or kevorkians death machine

[FkNdRk]

I grab the rat by the neck with one hand and the base of the tail with the other...then pull very hard. Game over.

[snake lab]

Wait wait, i got one. How bout letting the snake kill it and eat.

[FkNdRk]

Because I raise my snakes to breed and dont want to run the risk of injury. Thats why I prekill, simple as that.

[Ladybugzcrunch]

cervical dislocation is one way of killing MICE, but is not comon procedure for rats.
spooky

Escuzie
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ght=euthanasia
It is fairly common. As a matter of fact, this is actually the preferred method of killing rabbits for human consumption. When you gas, and the rat suffocates, it releases lots of lactic acid which makes the meat taste bitter. Can you please enlighten me as to why cervical dislocation is okay for mice but not for rats? They happen to have very similar anatomy.