I don't know about the States but here in NZ, the standard 'humane' procedure for killing rodents is suffocation by carbon dioxide. In juveniles this should be followed by cervical dislocation (breaking its neck).
What always got me on this topic was that every predator hunts live prey in the wild. Most of them probably start eating their prey before it's properly dead. That's perfectly natural. If a human did this deliberately to an animal, yes, I can see how that would be inhumane (and also gross). But allowing a predator to behave normally as it would in the wild? No. That's nature. Cruel perhaps (from an objective view point), but not inhumane.
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Date: 2007-10-02 08:15 am (UTC)What always got me on this topic was that every predator hunts live prey in the wild. Most of them probably start eating their prey before it's properly dead. That's perfectly natural. If a human did this deliberately to an animal, yes, I can see how that would be inhumane (and also gross). But allowing a predator to behave normally as it would in the wild? No. That's nature. Cruel perhaps (from an objective view point), but not inhumane.