I bought a few packages of mice from Big Cheese a few months ago for my new BP. Nice quality mice, no missing pieces and so on...

But I've noticed with the last few I've thawed, they're normal at first and then they're half covered in blood once they warm up! (I put them in a plastic bag and stick the bag in a thing of water to thaw over an hour or so) The blood comes from around the face and mouth area.

Is this normal? Maybe a side effect of freezing? (I figured maybe small capillaries in the face were getting damaged when frozen, and then when they thaw... Yeah.) My BP doesn't seem to like his food 'soggy', whether it's by water or blood so I'd like to be able to avoid this happening... That or I guess I'll need to wash and dry the mice before I feed them to him -_-;;