So as some may know, I had been briefly keeping a rat because Kayly was in shed and wouldn't eat. She shed yesterday and so I decided to try again since it had been about a week anyway. It took her a while to get that "hunter" pose but she got it. This is only her second rat and the last one took far longer to kill than this. She squirmed around with it for a good 5 minutes last time before the thing sputtered out (after 3-4 rounds of it playing dead). This time around, she struck, no squeal like they normally do, it flopped, she loosened, she's eating. In under a minute. I poked at it to check that it was actually dead and I'm pretty sure it is but it seemed far too quick. I read somewhere that there's a slight chance that they can become conscious inside the snake's stomach and claw their way out, which scares me to death. The last thing I want (and why I'm trying to switch to f/t) is for her to get clawed out from the inside by her own food. How likely is this? Should I take her in? Should I have not let her eat it yet? I did wiggle it around after to get her to squeeze some more but it was shirt-lived. By the LOOKS of it, she snapped it's spine right in half but I don't know if that's how that works. I thought they cut off circulation from brain to body and that's how they killed, not by breaking and crushing. Either way, I'm worried it might have just been knocked out and want to know if she should be okay.