Ok so I bought the first small rat for my ball today .Before he was eating adult mice. The people at the store said to knock it out first so it could not attack my snake . So i did this and it was twitching in the box i feed my snake in (by the way i did not like the process at all). But my snake did not eat it. It just kept circling it and smelling it like it was about to. Im wondering did he not eat because the rat was not running around? Possibly just not hungry? Also not to mention he is under going his shedding cycle. And i know your not supposed to feed them during this but the pet store said it would be ok if the rat was knocked out. Im just confused because its the first time he did not eat.