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Hey I'm about to start feeding my burm small rabbits and was just wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks of doing it. One question is how do you kill the rabbit before feeding it? What is the easiest and most humane way? Thanks a lot!!

Hello,
Well I've noticed that once you start feeding rabbits the snake grows more rapidly, just my opinion. Anyways, as far as killing it, you could hit it with a frying pan!!! Or you could take a syringe with just air in it and aim for a blood vessel, it doesn't matter though, and push the air into it. It kills it insatiately, I can't say it doesn't hurt them because no one has ever done it to me but I'm sure it hurts less than your snake killing it or the frying pan.

Jonathan

Use Co2, it kills them with no pain.

Best to ignore those kinds of posts, or we'll just get more of the same. Only my $0.02.

Ok Smart guy how do you propose to kill the rabbit. First of all I would would just buy a frozen rabbit, but he asked how to kill it and I told him, which is more than you did.
Thank you, Jonathan

Thanks for the help, except for the last dude...How exactly do you use CO2??? I dont understand? Thanks again.

1. You get a Styrofoam box, put a 1" hole in the middle of the box.
2. put the dry ice in a container.
3. put the rabbit in the box.
4. poor water on the dry ice.
5. close the box.
when the CO2 starts to come out of the hole the rabbit should be dead. This is the most humane way to kill rats and rabbits. make shore you don't breath in to much gas. If you don't understand what i am saying leave your email address and i will send you a long detailed email.

Try a frozen one first though. I have to warm mine up, I bought a bucket and put the rabbit in a bag and then thaw it that way. when it sits in there I usually have to dump the bucket out once and refill it with the rabbit gets warm and mine eats it. She is very picky to, so I would try that before prekilling one.

Ya its to bad that there are people out there who do not have humane way of doing things. But, unfortunatly they exsist.

I suppose a search would turn up more than one discussion on this topic in the Burmese Forum alone. But can you offer a couple of pointers? Like would you recommend a 10 inch or 12 inch diameter frying pan? Cast iron or non-stick aluminum?

Thanks,
Joan

I was kidding about the frying pam, I thought it was funny. I didn't expect the guy to hit the rabbit with a pan. Thats stupid. And I'm sure the guy knew that I was just kidding. And as far as the syringe goes I don't see how thats not humane

I can not say your way was humane or not because i have not seen this done. some people say its humane to put the rat in a pillow case and hit it against the wall but I have tried this and i personally think the rat suffer. with all this said and done you don't know unless you see it. just My 2 cents

You mentioned that feeding rabbits increase the snakes grownth rapidly. How often do you feed it? Even baby rabbits? I fed my snake baby rabbits and it lost weight. Someone told me that baby rabbits dont have enough meat as adult rats do. Is that true?