I, like many others, others hold the rat by the tail and whack it hard against a sturdy shelf corner. You don't want to whack the head (thats how I was taught) unless you want a big ole bloody mess. I aim for just above the shoulder blades and whack em and throw them in the pile.
My rage came out one fine day when I returned from a shop about 45 minutes away to find that a group of mice had gotten out of their box, and into a bag of rat pinkies and ate them alive. I dropped the box in my lawn , and punch all of the mice to death.
It seemed worse than it was. They all died with the first punch, and probably quicker than most other methods, but I was soooo disgusted by the site of them eating the pink rats(some of them still alive) that I just went at it.
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Davey Giltner

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