F/T after a nonfeeding

It's not so much the organisms themselves as it also is the toxins etc. that they produce. You wouldn't let raw chicken sit out all day then freeze it to use it again, would you? Wouldn't make it sanitary.

If I've only thawed the mouse, and haven't warmed the it up under a heat lamp yet or left it out for too long, I'll refreeze, and offer it to one of my less picky eaters next week.

But about half of my collection has been refusing the last several months, and sometimes I'm left with a mouse that I've repeatedly warmed and offered to several snakes, but had no takers.... and sometimes I leave a mouse under the lamp a little too long, and then it's no longer safe for the pythons because it's cooked.

I've tried simply throwing them out, as well as flushing them down the toilet. But I hate the smell of rotting rodent in the trash, and I REALLY hate it coming out of the shower drain. Wrapping them in a plastic bag before throwing them out would probably work, I guess, but it also seems so wasteful.

So usually I'll dig a little hole in my front garden, preferably somewhere the dogs don't go, and I'll bury the mouse as compost. I have pepper plants and tomatoes, and supposedly roses like a little extra calcium, so at least the damn mouse isn't going completely to waste. As long as I bury it at least 6 inches down, I don't smell it.