Help?

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I have a ball python and it happened to come with feeder mice, I'm horribly allergic to rats and mice so Im giving them to a friend for his snake, the only small rodent I can think of that I'm not allergic to is hamsters, but I've heard they can really bite snakes and put up more of a fight than rats and mice, also my snake only eats live food, do you guys know a humaine way to knock them out or have any suggestions of what I should do?