Quote Originally Posted by joepythons
You are right on the humane part,but when you take them and thump there heads on something i think thats more cruel.I basicly do what the snake does in a sense instead of squeezing him to death i break his neck.Another thing killing them this way compared to thumping them i have never had a rat get up and attack the snake.I was just giving this way as a possibility if its needed.
I agree that you do it your way, and if you think about it the way you do it causes much less suffering than constriction. If I choose p/k, then I knock them out on a hard object and they are out quickly, but even so my snakes strike it and constrict it so even if it where to become conscious, it wouldn't make it through the constriction.