I feed live and in the cage to my banana ball and today he took the first one fine. Dropped the second small rat in and it hid in the corner behind one of the plastic plants. I thought to myself I should take the plant out but Loki was already on the move and knew where it was. Long story short he got a bad angle on the rat ended up grabbing it by the ass and I had the tongs ready so he coiled and coiled and this thing didn't die after 5 minutes of squealing and it not dying Loki let it go and it crawled away. I ended up dislocating its neck and tried dangling it in front of him but he couldn't be less interested. My question is will my snake be okay? He seemed fine and the rat didn't bite him but I'm just worried because he let it go after battling it for 5 minutes. And what can I do in the future if this happens. Side note. No the rat was not too big for the snake of anything he was too small and is why I had to feed two. He could've easily killed it if he took it head first