prekilling your snake's prey by yourself?

[andwhy6]

A lot more humane than being smashed against cement...

An appropriately sized live prey item will expire via constriction without much suffering within seconds. That is what these snakes were designed to do.

Please do not thump your animals, it is cruel and not a guarantee to kill 100% of the time. You can very easily just break the poor thing and it still be alive. That is not at all humane.

Giving it to your snake to take care of is a million times better than whacking, the amount of force is so strong that it can stop the heart from beating.

Gassing is the only recognized private way of putting any feeders down besides the procedures a vet does.

We put down rats every week via CO2 chamber. It is easy and no rat has to get hurt, they fall asleep with a slow trickle of gas, then when they are asleep turn it all the way up to dispatch of them quickly.

You can make CO2 using vinegar and baking soda as well, dry ice can be purchased from Walmart too.

Yeah I've tried thumping before and it didn't kill the mouse in the first whack so I felt pretty bad....I suggest just feeding live.

not to be inhumane but.... trust me if you hit it hard enough it only takes once... use a fred meyer bag... and it does not take seconds for an animal to die when being constricted. were talkin 20 seconds and usually the animal is still moving if not still screaming. not to mention the prey gets bit in the face to start out. so im gonna say one quick knock to the head beats gettin bit in the face and squeezed to death any day.