I feed f/t to my snakes and sometimes, after I've thawed the mice-cicle or rat-cicle, it's belly will rupture and spill it's guts all over the place when I pick it up.

Not a pleasant site or fun to clean up.

Sunday (which is feeding day here) I fed Breeze a small rat and it ruptured while he was swallowing it. I won't go further into details as it was pretty nasty.

Any thoughts on how to prevent this?