Hi all,
On numerous occasions I have read, and heard, that some people place their feed rodents into their freezer to kill them humanely? As I have never done this I had a limited opinion until recently. A mate recently told me he had killed a large adult female rat by placing her into the freezer and that I could collect it. So over I go to get it and when he takes it out of the freezer the animal has blood around the lower half of its body, and there is rat crap everywhere. My immediate response was to ask what he had done to it. My mate assures me she was alive and well when he popped her into the freezer.
From this I have deduced, the freezing method is not as humane and painless as I have read. For an animal to make such a mess of it's self tells me it suffered, thrashed about and fought for it's life. I accept this method works for reptiles and amphibians as they are cold blooded and shut down in the cold but a mammal doesn't shut down until the pain of cold kills it. I am now converted to not freezing rodents to kill them and people either use the CO2 method, (which I have also never witnessed) or they simply snap the rodents neck or crack it's head, good and proper to kill it instantly.
Interested in other peoples point of view on this one, or other humane methods of killing rodents.
Cheers
On numerous occasions I have read, and heard, that some people place their feed rodents into their freezer to kill them humanely? As I have never done this I had a limited opinion until recently. A mate recently told me he had killed a large adult female rat by placing her into the freezer and that I could collect it. So over I go to get it and when he takes it out of the freezer the animal has blood around the lower half of its body, and there is rat crap everywhere. My immediate response was to ask what he had done to it. My mate assures me she was alive and well when he popped her into the freezer.
From this I have deduced, the freezing method is not as humane and painless as I have read. For an animal to make such a mess of it's self tells me it suffered, thrashed about and fought for it's life. I accept this method works for reptiles and amphibians as they are cold blooded and shut down in the cold but a mammal doesn't shut down until the pain of cold kills it. I am now converted to not freezing rodents to kill them and people either use the CO2 method, (which I have also never witnessed) or they simply snap the rodents neck or crack it's head, good and proper to kill it instantly.
Interested in other peoples point of view on this one, or other humane methods of killing rodents.
Cheers