Exploding Rat (kinda gross)

This is the first time this has ever happened to me. I feed 8 snakes F/T rats and i guess this girl was being overly agresive to feed today. Well here are a couple of pics. BTW it doesnt smell to good either.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0pics/guts.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...pics/guts1.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...pics/guts2.jpg

OMG! That's, oh my, yuck-a-roo! What in the world would cause that?

I think i overheated the rat a little. Because when you heat F/T the belley of the rat becomes really soft.

Eww. I feed f/t, and luckily this has never happend to me :)

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Originally Posted by Simplest_Mistake

Eww. I feed f/t, and luckily this has never happend to me :)

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ha ha...most likely it will eventually. I had that happen once or twice when I fed f/t.

I won't complain about a few busted rodents....as long as they still get eatten:D

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Originally Posted by oorob00

I think i overheated the rat a little. Because when you heat F/T the belley of the rat becomes really soft.

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How did you heat the rat?

I let them sit out from when i get home in the morning from work at about 8am. Then at about 7-8pm i set them under a CHE for about 10-15min. After that i make sure that they are warm to the touch and heat up the head a little then throw them in the tank.

LOL, it's a good thing you use a newspaper substrate!!

Yeah that is one reason i use newspaper because it is easy to clean the cage as long as they do their buisness on it.

I thought it was going to happen the other day when my Cali was eating his f/t mouse...but luckily it didn't :)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

ha ha...most likely it will eventually. I had that happen once or twice when I fed f/t.

I won't complain about a few busted rodents....as long as they still get eatten:D

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