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What is the safest most humane way to euthanize a rabbit? My blood python is getting to the size where jumbo rats are a snack. I do not want want to feed a live and kicking rabbit to my snake. I remember hearing something about Carbon Dioxide I think. If so, how do you do that where do you the the CO2 from?

thanks

>>What is the safest most humane way to euthanize a rabbit? My blood python is getting to the size where jumbo rats are a snack. I do not want want to feed a live and kicking rabbit to my snake. I remember hearing something about Carbon Dioxide I think. If so, how do you do that where do you the the CO2 from?
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CO 2 is likely your best bet. IF you know what you are doing it is as easy as cervical dislocating mice. But because of the size you really need to know what you are doing. When I raised rabbits I would kill them with one knock from a foot of one inch pipe....but I learned from a professional butcher.
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Sonya

I am also interested in this as my snakes are requiring larger feeders......and I really hate dealing with frozen / thawing, hearing the animal scream at kill ( and i would imagine a rabbit can let out a pretty nasty screech)and just cant handle thwacking them on the head or see myself swinging a pillowcase.....tried it and all i could manage was giving the jumbo rat a headache.......

anyway i have been reading these articles and will be constructing my own kill box as the Euthanex system is very expensive....around 450.00. Maybe these will help:

http://labanimals.stanford.edu/Guidelines/CO2.html
http://www.euthanex.com/euthanex/index.htm