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[Stargazer]

It's a little different than the circle of life when you are raising animals in captivity, and you are choosing the method of death for the prey item--humane or inhumane. It is not natural for a live prey item to be introduced into an enclosure. Nature is certainly barbaric, in controlled circumstances, you have responsibility in the way the rodent dies.

I will add that I think if snakes had the option of dining on f/t rats in the wild, they would pick that option any day!