Quote Originally Posted by Oxylepy View Post
If you want to feed prekilled I've heard a few ways of doing it yourself.

First you can stick it in a sock and smack it against a wall nice and hard. That will definitely kill it, and give you a pretty red sock (I'm kidding, never do that). I did hear that you can pin them down with a ruler by the back of the neck and then pull upwards with their tail and it's supposed to sever the spine. Never tried, personally. I only buy live feeders as "treats" to let my snakes hunt every once in a while (mind you I also feed them lives that are about a quarter of the size of their normal frozen food, so yeah an adult mouse is not going to do much damage to a 4 foot 1500g ball python).
Yeah... I don't think pre-killed is for me. Is there any way to thaw the rats and keep them completely dry?