I've had my bp for over a year and he's never done this so I'm a bit concerned. Last night, when I was feeding him, I noticed that the rat felt somewhat stiff in the tongs so my suspicion is that this may have happened as a result of me not thawing it enough. Most of the rats that come when I order them are white, but this one was mostly black, he doesn't have any problems eating different colored rats, the issue that the color created was that, combined with the dark coloration of my snake and the crappy lighting in my room, it was difficult for me to monitor his eating progress.

He usually takes a while to eat and I usually stay in the room to keep an eye on him in case something like this happens. After he'd taken the rat and I'd washed my hands, I sat on my bed and got on a call with my friends on discord, it's important to mention that I had my earbuds in. While he was eating, I was occasionally hearing a cracking sound, at the time I couldn't tell if it was coming from the call or my room though, I'm currently wondering if it was the cold part of the rat, reacting in the same way that ice cubes do when you put them in water, idk though it could be completely unrelated, I'm just trying to be thorough.

Around a point at which I was able to determine that he had at least a half of the rat down, my mom came home with groceries and called upstairs for me to help her. I told my friends I had to go, hung up, and saw that the entire rat was now out of my snake's mouth, he held on to its head for a few moments before letting go and staring at me. I'm pretty confused as to if this qualifies as regurgitation or not, the rat didn't look digested at all, though I threw it out to be safe. My snake seems fine, when I opened the tank to put his warm hide back in, he kinda looked like he wanted to eat my hand. My main concern at this point is aftercare, to my knowledge, the reason you're supposed to wait awhile before feeding after regurgitation is because of the damage regurging does to the throat, but I'm unsure if this situation would've caused any damage. I'm sorry again this is so long.