I have found that if you whack them in the head and then dislocate the head from the spine (putting their head behind a knife or other object and pulling the tail) that you cover both bases and eliminate simply stunning them by just whacking them. Of course whether they are stunned or dead is usually more of an issue with finicky eating snakes than monitors. Freezing rodents for slow breeding times in rodent colonies is good but bear in mind having too many frozen rodents can quickly become a problem in the event of a prolonged power outage. This happened to me during hurricane Francis with larger rats which is a size I have limited use for. Another alternative to limiting breeding is to find an outlet for surplus rodents. Something not hard to do and that helps with the feed bill.

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