The "quality" of this item I was sold is appalling!

[Pythonfriend]

he is eating it underwater playing anaconda

a groce smell is really bad and broken limbs also are a red flag. one raises questions if its rotten or not or what is going on, if it exceeds a faint rhodent smell and potentially a faint rhodent poop smell (like in rat racks due to be cleaned out), its quite worrying. the other issue raises questions on how the rhodents were kept and treated.

but rats do have quite a range of motion and when freshly killed there just isnt any muscle tension, so them being in rather random positions when frozen seems normal to me. its to be expected. rats can easily scratch the back of their heads with their hind legs. so frozen dead rats can easily be in weird yoga positions, even if no forces were applied and all has been done correctly, just by putting 20 into a bag and gently massaging the bag into a proper dense and stackable shape. i would not worry about that aspect. its merely about optics, not an actual problem, and the solution, if one is needed, is to arrange the dead rhodents before freezing. These 3d puzzle like rat bricks may seem kinda groce, but it says nothing about quality, its just packaging.