help

[deadsmiley]

i tried feeding my baby boa a mouse, she ended up eating it sideways and im pretty sure that means its too small of a prey item. problem is ive never even heard of a snake squeezing its prey hard enough to make the entrails squeeze out of its stomache. it was frozen thawed from a pet store ive never purchased from because my rat breeder crashed her car and isnt getting me rats from her facility anymore. should i be concerned about the quality of the prey? i think it may have possibly been poorly frozen and maybe started to decompose. i dont see any reason for it to have come out like that besides maybe some decomposition prior to being frozen. what should i do? will my snake be sick? are my assumptions of decompostion before freezing reasonable?

[Sammy412]

sometimes that will happen. Doesn't mean the prey item is bad. just means your snake squeezed it just right...lol. Just a hint, the prey item should be the same size or a tad bigger than the fattest part of your snake

[deadsmiley]

i know how big they should be i just couldnt get the right pray because of what happened to my supplier, im just worried about the exploding stomache. i could see quite a bit of red through the stomache, but it looked like the skin was already thin and possibly slipping.

[alexOATH]

Sometimes if you overheat the f/t rodent they tend to explode like that.

[Brie]

Sometimes if you overheat the f/t rodent they tend to explode like that.

Yep... then it becomes a slimy mess

[coldblooded]

A slimy and smelly mess!

As everyone has said, it happens from time to time with f/t. I wouldn't be worried.

[deadsmiley]

well thank you very much everyone. i must have over heated the mouse. ive never had to thaw a mouse before. only medium sized rats and i thawed it along with a medium rat for the same time and in the same water so thats probably it. thank you all once again, i was pretty worried since snakes cant really handle decomposed prey and i was pretty upset with the pet store lol.