I've had my BP for two weeks and fed him in his enclosure for the second time today. He took the mouse right away but a few things ended up being less than optimal:

- The mouse I thawed somehow got a raging nosebleed

- My BP grabbed the mouse in the middle of the body instead of the head, and then tried to eat it rear-end first for about 20 minutes, which meant dragging the bloody mouse all over himself and the enclosure and getting cypress mulch stuck on it

- BP finally got the mouse facing the right way but ate some small pieces of cypress stuck to it

So overall it was pretty gross, now the floor of the enclosure needs to be cleaned, and I'm worried that my BP might get a splinter stuck in his mouth or an impaction from eating bits of cypress. Wondering if there's a better way to do this next time, and if there are any ways to:

a) Prevent frozen/thawed mouse nosebleeds
b) Prevent BP from grabbing the wrong end of the mouse
c) Prevent ingestion of substrate when feeding inside the enclosure