Cutting Frozen Rats?

i think the results will be quite nasty. much of the stuff inside is held together by the skin around it, cut it and different internal organs go everywhere.

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Originally Posted by Pythonfriend

i think the results will be quite nasty. much of the stuff inside is held together by the skin around it, cut it and different internal organs go everywhere.

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I thought there would be some invisible force holding everything inside :D lol

To the OP if you did this please post pics!!

There's really no reason to be rude.

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Originally Posted by Awaiting Abyss

There's really no reason to be rude.

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I hope you were not referring to me. I was only joking... :tears:

I'm confused. I don't see anyone even close to being rude in this thread. :confusd:

You can cut FT prey.
Some people do so for their animals with no issue. I know people who feed FT avian and rodent prey to certain species in parts.

And some snakes do continue to eat FT prey that has exploded in half after a constriction.

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Originally Posted by Awaiting Abyss

I was referring to cutting open the rat.

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As opposed to...?

Surely no one thought you were referring to the cat!

I'm sure you could cut a rat in half and feed it to a blood, but there's got to be a better way. Plus, what are you going to do with the tail end?

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Corn snake people feed partial pinkies to hatchling corns that are too small to eat a whole pink all the time. There is also a theory that just making a few holes in the skin allows the snake's digestive juices to penetrate faster thus making it a little safer to feed a prey item that is borderline too big. I've heard that one of the dangers of feeding too big of a meal is that it does not get digested fast enough and the snake will regurge whatever remains when it begins to spoil in the stomach, but I'm not sure this is 100% true.

There will be no harm in cutting they prey item in half. It might get messy, but I think as long as the snake eats f/t in general, it will end up eating at least part of the meal even if some guts get squished out. There is virtually no mess if you just cut the head off, although this is obviously not an even division and since snakes go for the head it might not take the body part.

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Originally Posted by kc261

...since snakes go for the head it might not take the body part.

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I think we were absent when they taught that one...

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Originally Posted by patientz3ro

As opposed to...?

Surely no one thought you were referring to the cat!

I'm sure you could cut a rat in half and feed it to a blood, but there's got to be a better way. Plus, what are you going to do with the tail end?

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I was saying the inards don't go everywhere when cutting the rat. Someone else said that cats don't constrict so I said I was referring to cutting up the rat.

I would assume the other end would be frozen again and used at the next feeding.